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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
impregnate
 
SYLLABICATION:im·preg·nate
PRONUNCIATION:  m-prgnt
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: im·preg·nat·ed, im·preg·nat·ing, im·preg·nates
1. To make pregnant; inseminate. 2. To fertilize (an ovum, for example). 3. To fill throughout; saturate: a cotton wad that was impregnated with ether. 4. To permeate or imbue: impregnate a speech with optimism. See synonyms at charge.
ADJECTIVE:(also -nt) Saturated or filled.
ETYMOLOGY:Probably from Late Latin impraegntus, pregnant : Latin in-, in; see in–2 + Latin praegntus, variant of praegns, pregnant. See pregnant1.
OTHER FORMS:impreg·nation —NOUN
im·pregnator —NOUN
 
 
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