IMPREGNATE


Meaning of IMPREGNATE in English

(~s, impregnating, ~d)

1.

If someone or something ~s a thing with a substance, they make the substance spread through it and stay in it.

Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to ~ paper with LSD.

VERB: V n with n

-~d

...nicotine-~d chewing gum.

COMB in ADJ

2.

When a man or a male animal ~s a female, he makes her pregnant. (FORMAL)

Norman’s efforts to ~ her failed.

VERB: V n

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