impregnate
verb (used with object)
to make pregnant; cause to be with child or young.
had impregnated
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past perfectof impregnate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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My wedding was called off when I learned my would-be husband had impregnated two different women.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2020
Her husband left her shortly after her second baby was born to marry the young woman he had impregnated.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2015
Bond, a microbiologist, went a little overboard after learning that her husband had impregnated her closest friend, Myrlinda Haynes.
From Forbes ● Jun. 2, 2014
In one case, Shapiro told the website, he even paid for an abortion for a woman one of his players had impregnated.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2011
Before they had been two months in the little apartment on Fifty-seventh Street, it had assumed for both of them the same indefinable but almost material taint that had impregnated the gray house in Marietta.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
