impregnateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹɛɡneɪt/

動詞

impregnate (三人称単数 現在形 impregnates, 現在分詞 impregnating, 過去形および過去分詞形 impregnated)

1. (transitive) To cause to become pregnant.

   Synonyms: knock up, inseminate, (of animals) cover

   I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.

   • 1903 [1901], Maurice Maeterlinck, Alfred Sutro, transl., The Life of the Bee, New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, page 264:

     The queen at their head, the representative of the future, has not yet been impregnated. Their entire destiny depends on the ensuing nuptial flight.

2. (transitive) To fertilize.
3. (transitive) To saturate, or infuse.
   • 1791, John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] ‎^[1], London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, →OCLC, page 498:

     To Tartarize, ta²r'ta⁴r-i¹ze, v. a.
     To impregnate with tartar.

   • 1835, Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology […] , volume III, 4th edition, London: John Murray, Book IV, page 322:

     We find those charæ which secrete the largest quantity of calcareous matter in their stems to abound near springs impregnated with carbonate of lime.

4. (transitive) To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
   • 1937, Hugh Bertie Campbell Pollard, The mystery of scent (page 121)

     It takes a little time for the personal fatty acids to impregnate new shoes or boots, but from the scent point of view leather is a sponge, and the personal scent is left.

5. (intransitive, dated) To become pregnant.
   • 2023 April 18 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison, “TUESDAY, April 7, 2023”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume (please either specify the issue number または |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     Were they, like Spanish Jennets, to impregnate by the Wind, they could not have thought on a more proper Invention.

参考

• conceive
• sire
• father

アナグラム

• permeating, rimegepant