How to use impregnate in a sentence Past simple and past participle of impregnate 2 To cause something, usually a solid substance… Definition of impregnate verb from the oxford advanced learner's dictionary [usually passive] to make a substance spread through an area so that the area is full of the substance Be impregnated (with something) the pad is impregnated with insecticide.
If someone or something impregnates a thing with a substance, they make the substance spread through it and stay in it Impregnating clothes with insect repellent is effective Cause to be with child or young. See examples of impregnate used in a sentence. To fertilize (an ovum, for example) A cotton wad that was impregnated with ether
When dog breeders mate two german shepherds, they hope that the male will impregnate the female, or make her pregnant When your cat has kittens, it's because the neighbor's cat impregnated her several months earlier The latin root, impraegnare, comes from in, into, and praegnare, pregnant. To cause (a material) to be filled or soaked with something a cake impregnated with brandy 2 technical To make (a woman or a female animal) pregnant To cause something, usually a solid substance, to absorb something, usually a liquid
Conceiving, brooding, pregnant, gestational, childbearing, caught, prenatal, expecting Infertile, nonpregnant, barren, delivered, miscarrying, aborting, dried, wrung (out)
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