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1. Fill, as with a certain quality
   "The heavy traffic impregnates the air with carbon monoxide";
   - infuse, instill, tincture
    
2. Infuse or fill completely
   "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol";
   - saturate
    
3. Fertilize and cause to grow
   "the egg was impregnated"
    
4. Make pregnant
   "He impregnated his wife again";
   - knock up [informal], bang up [informal]

Derived forms: impregnating, impregnates, impregnated

Type of: fecundate, fertilise [Brit], fertilize, fill, fill up, inseminate

Encyclopedia: Impregnate