| VERB | change | impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture | fill, as with a certain quality |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | impregnate, saturate | infuse or fill completely | |
| body | impregnate | fertilize and cause to grow | |
| body | impregnate, knock up, bang up, prang up | make pregnant |
| Sounds | ihmpreh'gney.t | |
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| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | Fill, as with a certain quality. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | infuse, instill, tincture | |
| Broader | fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense |
| Spanish | teñir, tinturar | |
| Catalan | tenyir, tintar | |
| Meaning | infuse or fill completely. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Model | They impregnate the cloth with water and alcohol; Water and alcohol impregnate the cloth | |
| Example | "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" | |
| Synonym | saturate | |
| Narrower | alcoholize, alcoholise | treat or infuse with alcohol |
| ammonify | treat with ammonia | |
| charge | saturate | |
| imbrue, drench | permeate or impregnate | |
| medicate | impregnate with a medicinal substance | |
| soak, imbue | Fill, soak, or imbue totally | |
| stuff | treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | |
| thoriate | impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | |
| Broader | fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense |
| Spanish | impregnar, saturar | |
| Catalan | amarar, impregnar, saturar, xopar | |
| Nouns | impregnation | the process of totally saturating something with a substance |
| Meaning | fertilize and cause to grow. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "the egg was impregnated" | |
| Narrower | inoculate | impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune |
| Broader | inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise | introduce semen into (a female) |
| Similar to | impregnate, knock up, bang up, prang up | make pregnant |
| Nouns | impregnation | creation by the physical union of male and female gametes |
| Meaning | make pregnant. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "He impregnated his wife again" | |
| Synonyms | knock up, bang up, prang up | |
| Broader | inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise | introduce semen into (a female) |
| Similar to | impregnate | fertilize and cause to grow |
| Spanish | dejar embarazada, embarazar, empreñar, fecundar, fertilizar, impregnar, preñar | |
| Catalan | embarassar, emprenyar, impregnar, prenyar | |
| Nouns | impregnation | creation by the physical union of male and female gametes |
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