impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture (verb)

fill, as with a certain quality

"The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

impregnate, saturate (verb)

infuse or fill completely

"Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"

impregnate (verb)

fertilize and cause to grow

"the egg was impregnated"

impregnate, knock up, bang up, prang up (verb)

make pregnant

"He impregnated his wife again"

impregnate (Verb)

To cause to become pregnant.

impregnate (Verb)

To fertilize.

impregnate (Verb)

To saturate, or infuse.

impregnate (Verb)

To fill pores or spaces with a substance.

impregnate

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a new individual organism or offspring and initiate its development. While processes such as insemination or pollination which happen before the fusion of gametes are also sometimes informally referred to as fertilisation, these are technically separate processes. The cycle of fertilisation and development of new individuals is called sexual reproduction. During double fertilisation in angiosperms the haploid male gamete combines with two haploid polar nuclei to form a triploid primary endosperm nucleus by the process of vegetative fertilisation.