impregnate

英 [ˈɪmpreɡneɪt]

美 [ɪmˈpreɡneɪt]

v.  使充满; 使遍布; 使怀孕; 使妊娠

过去分词：impregnated　过去式：impregnated　现在分词：impregnating　第三人称单数：impregnates　

TEM8

BNC.19783 / COCA.19171

牛津词典

verb

• 使充满；使遍布
  to make a substance spread through an area so that the area is full of the substance
  1. The pad is impregnated with insecticide.
     垫子上满是杀虫剂。
• 使怀孕；使妊娠
  to make a woman or female animal pregnant

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使浸透;浸渍
  If someone or somethingimpregnatesa thingwitha substance, they make the substance spread through it and stay in it.
  1. Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.
     卧底警官发现了用于使迷幻药浸透到纸里的毒品制造设备。
  2. ...a block of plastic impregnated with a light-absorbing dye.
     一块浸透吸光染料的塑料
• VERB 使受精;使怀孕
  When a man or a male animalimpregnatesa female, he makes her pregnant.
  1. Norman's efforts to impregnate her failed.
     诺曼想使她怀孕的努力失败了。

英英释义

verb

• make pregnant
  1. He impregnated his wife again
  Synonym:knock upbang upprang up
• fertilize and cause to grow
  1. the egg was impregnated
• infuse or fill completely
  1. Impregnate the cloth with alcohol
  Synonym:saturate
• fill, as with a certain quality
  1. The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide
  Synonym:infuseinstilltincture

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