impregnate
1 of 2verb
transitive verb
impregnate
2 of 2adjective
Synonyms
Verb
- drench
- drown
- macerate
- saturate
- soak
- sodden
- sop
- souse
- steep
Example Sentences
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 5 June 2017 And none of these policies mention what lawmakers think should happen to the men who impregnate women. Grant Hughes, Glamour, 13 July 2022 In this Danish comedy, a fertility specialist hatches a drunken plan to use her ex-boyfriend’s sperm to impregnate herself and somehow win him back. Hau Chu, Washington Post, 8 June 2022 Casanova’s mystically enabled sperm would impregnate her with a male fetus endowed with her soul. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 In addition to Cline, the documentary claims, there are 44 other doctors who have used their own sperm to impregnate their patients; they, too, were discovered through at-home DNA testing. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 May 2022 In 2017, Cline avoided jail time for lying about using his own sperm to impregnate as many as dozens of women after telling them the donors were anonymous. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 May 2022 And in the documentary Our Father, nearly 100 people learn they were fathered by the same fertility doctor who, without consent, used his own sperm to impregnate patients. Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2022 Our Father recounts the case of Indianapolis doctor Donald Cline, who, over the course of several years, repeatedly used his own sperm to impregnate dozens of unwitting women seeking fertility treatment. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 May 2022 Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020 See More Word History
Verb
Late Latin impraegnatus, past participle of impraegnare, from Latin in- + praegnas pregnant
Verb
1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Adjective
1646, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
impregnate
transitive verb
impregnate
verb
Synonyms & Similar Words
- soak
- saturate
- drown
- drench
- macerate
- submerge
- immerse
- sodden
- souse
- wash
- sop
- penetrate
- dip
- steep
- marinate
- infiltrate
- water
- inundate
- permeate
- hydrate
- moisten
- bathe
- waterlog
- presoak
- seethe
- swamp
- douse
- humidify
- water-soak
- swill
- damp
- dampen
- dowse
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dry
- dehydrate
- wring (out)
- drain
- empty
- void
- desiccate
- sear
- parch
- dehumidify
Synonym Chooser
Some common synonyms of impregnate are drench, saturate, soak, and steep. While all these words mean "to permeate or be permeated with a liquid," impregnate implies a thorough interpenetration of one thing by another.
While in some cases nearly identical to impregnate, drench implies a thorough wetting by something that pours down or is poured.
The words saturate and impregnate can be used in similar contexts, but saturate implies a resulting effect of complete absorption until no more liquid can be held.
While the synonyms soak and impregnate are close in meaning, soak implies usually prolonged immersion as for softening or cleansing.
In some situations, the words steep and impregnate are roughly equivalent. However, steep suggests either the extraction of an essence (as of tea leaves) by the liquid or the imparting of a quality (such as a color) to the thing immersed.