IMPREGNATE

v. a.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

2.
v.

To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

3.
v.

To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

4.
v.

To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

5.
v.

To become pregnant. Addison.

6.
a.

Impregnated; made prolific. The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease. Byron.

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