impregnate
verb (used with object)
to make pregnant; cause to be with child or young.
has impregnated
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present perfectof impregnate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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This effort leads to the arrest of a local man named Claudio, who has impregnated his fiancée.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
A young South African man who had the world's first successful penis transplant last December has impregnated his girlfriend, the doctor who led the surgery said on Friday.
From Reuters ● Jun. 12, 2015
Perhaps that wasn't the original intent of Rhys Hughes's "Young Tales of the Old Cosmos" in which illustrator Gonzalo Canedo has impregnated human faces onto celestial bodies.
From The Verge ● Mar. 17, 2015
The zoo's most expensive inmate, a $12,000 male lowland gorilla, fathered one infant in July, and has impregnated a second female.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is rather a delicate point to say how far Western thought has impregnated our own.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
