IMPREGNATE


Meaning of IMPREGNATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmpregneɪt, AM ɪmpreg- ]

( impregnates, impregnating, impregnated)

1.

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

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

VERB : V n with n

• -impregnated

...nicotine-impregnated chewing gum.

COMB in ADJ

2.

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

Norman’s efforts to impregnate her failed.

VERB : V n

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