1. make (a woman or female animal) pregnant.Similarmake pregnantget pregnantinseminatefertilizeinformal:put in the family wayget up the duffput in the clubget up the spoutget up the stickknock upinformal, dated:get into troublearchaic:fecundateget with child
▪ imbue with feelings or qualities:"an atmosphere impregnated with tension"
Word Originearly 17th century (in the sense ‘fill’; earlier (Middle English) as impregnation): from late Latin impregnat- ‘made pregnant’, from the verb impregnare.
