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impregnate

/verb im-preg-neyt, im-preg-neyt; adjective im-preg-nit, -neyt/US // verb ɪmˈprɛg neɪt, ˈɪm prɛgˌneɪt; adjective ɪmˈprɛg nɪt, -neɪt //

浸渍,浸透,浸泡,浸润

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·preg·nat·ed, im·preg·nat·ing.

    • : to make pregnant; get with child or young.
    • : to fertilize.
    • : to cause to be infused or permeated throughout, as with a substance; saturate: to impregnate a handkerchief with cheap perfume.
    • : to fill interstices with a substance.
    • : to furnish with some actuating or modifying element infused or introduced; imbue; infect; tincture.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : impregnated.

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Examples

  • A recent issue contained a scratch-and-sniff card impregnated with the scent of an extinct flower.

  • Years ago, some doctors, without consent, used their own sperm rather than that of donors to impregnate women who sought fertility treatment.

  • Birenbaum-Carmeli also points to technology that means even a near-sterile man can now be assisted to impregnate his wife.

  • Sex addiction is simply a new name for the old evolutionary concept—the innate urge to impregnate as many females as possible.

  • He squeezes it between his fingers, in order to completely impregnate it and dries it.

  • Her remorseful grief, though silent, seemed to impregnate the atmosphere with its heaviness.

  • To impregnate these, a bunch of male flowers is carefully inserted and fastened in the calyx.

  • Impregnate the tissues with mucilage for twelve to twenty-four hours, according to size.

  • They can impregnate cloth and leather, nay, even paper and parchment, with the most subtle venom.