Word Meanings - IMPREGNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To come into contact with so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into;
Additional info about word: IMPREGNATE
To come into contact with so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished ; as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore. (more info) 1. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPREGNATE)
- Imbue
- Tinge
- dye
- stain
- impregnate
- inoculate
- ingrain
- affect
- infect
- Inoculate
- Impregnate
- indoctrinate
- tinge
- insert
- imbue
- instil
- ingraft
- Saturate
- Soak
- infuse
- steep
- sate
- Taint
- defile
- corrupt
- sully
- tarnish
- contaminate
- vitiate
- poison
- pollute
- blot
- disgrace
- dishonor
- Color
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPREGNATE)
- Mend
- repair
- purify
- cleanse
- correct
- ameliorate
- better
- Purify
- wash
- absolve
- ornament
- decorate
- emblazon
- signalize
- honor
- Air
- dry
- ventilate
- fan
- sun
- aridity
- exsiccate
Related words: (words related to IMPREGNATE)
- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - INSTILL
To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To - DECORATE
To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero - HONORABLE
1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an - PURIFY
1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt - SIGNALIZE
1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - CORRECTLY
In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - VITIATE
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - INGRAIN
1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- - INFECTIOUSLY
In an infectious manner. Shak. - CORRUPTIBLE
1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation. - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - HONORABLENESS
1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness. - ORNAMENTAL
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne. - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - SUSTAIN
F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains - REINFECT
To infect again. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike.