impregnate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they impregnate | |
| he / she / it impregnates | |
| past simple impregnated | |
| past participle impregnated | |
| -ing form impregnating |
- [usually passive]
to make a substance spread through an area so that the area is full of the substance 使充满；使遍布 - impregnate somebody/something (formal)
to make a woman or female animal pregnant 使怀孕；使妊娠
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘fill’; earlier (Middle English) as impregnation): from late Latin impregnat- ‘made pregnant’, from the verb impregnare.