impregnate
浸渍,浸透,浸泡,浸润
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im·preg·nat·ed, im·preg·nat·ing.
- : to make pregnant; get with child or young.
- : to fertilize.
- : to cause to be infused or permeated throughout, as with a substance; saturate: to impregnate a handkerchief with cheap perfume.
- : to fill interstices with a substance.
- : to furnish with some actuating or modifying element infused or introduced; imbue; infect; tincture.
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- : impregnated.
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A recent issue contained a scratch-and-sniff card impregnated with the scent of an extinct flower.
Years ago, some doctors, without consent, used their own sperm rather than that of donors to impregnate women who sought fertility treatment.
Birenbaum-Carmeli also points to technology that means even a near-sterile man can now be assisted to impregnate his wife.
Sex addiction is simply a new name for the old evolutionary concept—the innate urge to impregnate as many females as possible.
He squeezes it between his fingers, in order to completely impregnate it and dries it.
Her remorseful grief, though silent, seemed to impregnate the atmosphere with its heaviness.
To impregnate these, a bunch of male flowers is carefully inserted and fastened in the calyx.
Impregnate the tissues with mucilage for twelve to twenty-four hours, according to size.
They can impregnate cloth and leather, nay, even paper and parchment, with the most subtle venom.