impregnate
verb
[ ˈɪmprɛɡneɪt ]
• soak or saturate (something) with a substance.
• "wood which had been impregnated with preservative"
Similar:
infuse,
soak,
steep,
saturate,
drench,
permeate,
suffuse,
imbue,
pervade,
fill,
load,
charge,
• make (a woman or female animal) pregnant.
• "he was obliged to marry the woman he'd impregnated"
Similar:
make pregnant,
get pregnant,
inseminate,
fertilize,
put in the family way,
get up the duff,
put in the club,
get up the spout,
get up the stick,
knock up,
get into trouble,
fecundate,
get with child,
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘fill’; earlier (Middle English) as impregnation ): from late Latin impregnat- ‘made pregnant’, from the verb impregnare .
