impreg'nation

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impregnate
 
vb
1.  to saturate, soak, or infuse: to impregnate a cloth with detergent
2.  to imbue or permeate; pervade
3.  to cause to conceive; make pregnant
4.  to fertilize (an ovum)
5.  to make (land, soil, etc) fruitful
 
adj
6.  pregnant or fertilized
 
[C17: from Late Latin impraegnāre to make pregnant, from Latin im-in-² + praegnanspregnant]
 
impreg'nation
 
n
 
im'pregnator
 
n

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