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impregnation

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

浸渍,浸染,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

  • If their union is permitted at any other time, and particularly in winter, it is seldom attended with impregnation.

  • But of the supernatural conception of Mary and of her impregnation by a deity we are intensely sceptical.

  • As far as women are concerned, the danger of extra-marital impregnation occupies the first place.

  • Or is it poisoned with virus, from a very small distance, by the progressive impregnation of the neighbouring tissues?

  • Brown goes on to describe the change that follows impregnation, and the gradual appearance of the embryo.