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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Impregnate \Im*preg"nate\ ([i^]m*pr[e^]g"n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impregnated} (-n[asl]*t[e^]d); p. pr & vb n. {Impregnating} (-n[asl]*t[i^]ng).] [LL. impraegnatus p. p. of impraegnare to impregnate, fr L. pref. im- in + praegnans pregnant. See {Pregnant}.] 1. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young. 2. (Biol.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into to render fruitful or fertile in any way to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into to communicate the quality of another to to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.
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