impregnate

English

Etymology

Earlier impregn, from Middle French imprégner, from Old French enpreignier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹɛɡneɪt/

Verb

1. (transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

   I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.

   Synonyms: knock up, inseminate, cover (of animals)

2. (transitive) To fertilize.
3. (transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
   • 1824, John Walker, A critical pronouncing dictionary‎^[1], page 518:

     To Tartarize, ta²r'ta⁴ri¹ze, v.a. To impregnate with tartar.

4. (transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
   • 1937, Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard, The mystery of scent (page 121)

     It takes a little time for the personal fatty acids to impregnate new shoes or boots, but from the scent point of view leather is a sponge, and the personal scent is left.

5. (intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

Translations

to cause to become pregnant

• Bulgarian: оплождам (oploždam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使...受孕

• Czech: zbouchnout (cs) pf, oplodnit
• Danish: befrugte, besvangre, inseminere, bolle tyk (vulgar)
• Esperanto: gravedigi
• Finnish: saada raskaaksi, hedelmöittää (fi), siittää (fi)
• French: (subject is not a person) rendre enceinte, mettre enceinte (fr), enceinter (fr) (dated), engrosser (fr) (colloquial)
• Georgian: განაყოფიერება (ganaq̇opiereba), დაორსულება (daorsuleba)
• German: schwängern (de), besamen (de), befruchten (de)
• Hungarian: teherbe ejt
• Ido: fekundigar (io)
• Irish: toirchigh
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ingravidare, mettere incinta, impregnare (it)
• Japanese: 孕ませる (haramaseru)
• Latin: gravidō, maritō
• Maori: whakahapū, whakatō
• Portuguese: emprenhar (pt), engravidar (pt), fertilizar (pt)
• Romanian: însămânța (ro)
• Russian: де́лать бере́менной impf (délatʹ berémennoj), сде́лать бере́менной pf (sdélatʹ berémennoj), оплодотворя́ть (ru) impf (oplodotvorjátʹ), оплодотвори́ть (ru) pf (oplodotvorítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: toraich
• Spanish: fertilizar (es), inseminar (es)
• Swedish: befrukta (sv)
• Turkish: hamile bırakmak
• Ukrainian: запліднювати impf (zaplidnjuvaty), запліднити pf (zaplidnyty)
• Vietnamese: thụ tinh (vi)

to add nutrients — see fertilize

to saturate, to infuse

• Bulgarian: насищам (bg) (nasištam), напоявам (bg) (napojavam)
• Finnish: kyllästää
• French: imprégner de
• Italian: impregnare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: impregnar (pt)
• Russian: насыща́ть (ru) impf (nasyščátʹ), насы́тить (ru) pf (nasýtitʹ)
• Turkish: emdirmek (tr), yedirmek (tr), (bir şeye) doyurmak (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

to fill pores or spaces with a substance

• Bulgarian: импрегнирам (bg) (impregniram)
• Finnish: täyttää (fi), kyllästää
• French: imbiber (fr)
• German: imprägnieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: impregnare (it), permeare (it), pigmentare
• Portuguese: impregnar (pt), permear (pt)
• Russian: пропи́тывать (ru) impf (propítyvatʹ), пропита́ть (ru) pf (propitátʹ)
• Swedish: impregnera (sv)
• Turkish: emprenye etmek, sugeçirmez yapmak

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: ^{(please verify)} oplodnit pf
• French: ^{(please verify)} féconder (fr), ^{(please verify)} inséminer (fr)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} termékennyé tesz, ^{(please verify)} termékenyít (hu), ^{(please verify)} megtermékenyít (hu) (somebody)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fecondare (it), ^{(please verify)} impregnare (it), ^{(please verify)} inseminare (it)
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} empreingni (Jersey)
• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} emprenhar (pt)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} döllemek (tr), ^{(please verify)} tohumlamak (tr)

See also

• conceive
• sire
• father

Anagrams

• permeating, rimegepant

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Italian

Verb

impregnate

1. second-person plural present of impregnare
2. second-person plural imperative of impregnare
3. feminine plural of the past participle of impregnare

Anagrams

• pigmentare, pigmenterà, pigramente