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Impregnate

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

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Alcoholize 76% connected

To reduce to a fine powder.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Drench 76% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Imbrue 76% connected

To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood.

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Imbue 76% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Inoculate 76% connected

To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.

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Medicate 76% connected

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Fecundate 76% connected

To make fruitful or prolific.

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Fertilize 76% connected

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Inseminate 76% connected

To sow; to impregnate.

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Impregnation 74% connected

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

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Impregnation 74% connected

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

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Synonym 4

Infuse 92% connected

To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

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Instill 92% connected

To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.

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Saturate 92% connected

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tincture 92% connected

A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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