Definitions
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- v. Past participle of impregnate
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. same as fertilized, 1.
- adj. same as fertilized, 1.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I dont believe in all this baby-mama business, if the guy didnt get married to the first 2 chicks he impregnated, is it now YOU he will marry?
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He'd been walking down into town to attend day school for five years, and he'd learned all about the birds and the bees, and he thought that maybe his father -- the mountain -- impregnated his mother by means of some strange pollen carried on the gusts of winds from his deep and gloomy caves.
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The glass was then -- I'll just use the word impregnated -- but it had a layer of metal that was called stressed metal.
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"Another botanical curiosity, mentioned by him, is what they call the impregnated lemon. [
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Another botanical curiosity is called the impregnated lemon; which is a perfect and distinct lemon enclosed within another, and differing from the outer one only in being a little more globular.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
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And as for being 'impregnated' with confidence and pride - come on, lecturer in creative writing - 'marinaded' would surely do as well if you're just chucking any old words in there.
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However, alternative formulations, such as impregnated dusts, were recommended for treatment of concrete floors.
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~ -- Star Stettin cement is a Portland cement made by grinding a clinker which has been "impregnated" with substances which impart waterproofing properties to the ground product.
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Charles leaves for Europe to grieve his dead mother, Sam gains great personal confidence and business acumen from having "impregnated" his wife, and Nina is blissfully happy, finally giving birth to "Gordon's" baby, with Sam joyfully agreeing to name the boy after the only man his wife has every shown unbridled love and eternal devotion.
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The Latin-speaking Church Fathers thus undertook their reflections "with the help of the logical categories of Greek thought," such that classical philosophy "impregnated" their arguments as a type of
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