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impregnate - infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" |
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saturate |
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make full,
fill up,
fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
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medicate treat medicinally, treat with medicine
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alcoholise,
alcoholize make alcoholic, as by fermenting; "alcoholize prunes"
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imbue,
soak suffuse with color
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ammonify treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification
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thoriate impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission
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stuff fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
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charge saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
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imbrue,
drench permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"
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impregnate - fertilize and cause to grow; "the egg was impregnated" |
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knock up,
prang up,
bang up,
impregnate damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
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fecundate,
inseminate,
fertilise,
fertilize introduce semen into (a female)
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inoculate impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
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impregnate - make pregnant; "He impregnated his wife again" |
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fecundate,
inseminate,
fertilise,
fertilize introduce semen into (a female)
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impregnate - fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide" |
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infuse,
instill,
tincture |
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make full,
fill up,
fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
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