impregnate
verb (used with object)
to make pregnant; cause to be with child or young.
impregnation
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a word derived from
impregnate.
Example Sentences
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It starts with a fast-growing undisclosed African hardwood which is heat-treated and then further processed, including with resin impregnation.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
The cooling ceramic exhibits super-hydrophilicity, enabling immediate droplet spreading and facilitating rapid impregnation of the droplets through its interconnected porous structure.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 3, 2024
It’s a message at the core of The Handmaid’s Tale, the 1985 classic novel that imagines the institutionalisation of fertile women as “handmaids”, for impregnation by the elite.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2019
For starters, it puts the entire burden of pregnancy prevention on women, despite the necessary male component of impregnation.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2018
Even where such synchronism does prevail, so that a cross impregnation is effected, the chances are very numerous against the establishment of a hybrid race.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
