impregnates in English

verb
1
make (a woman or female animal) pregnant.
At 15 she qualified to live by herself under state care, and it was while she was living in a Surrey duplex that she was impregnated .
synonyms:make/get pregnantinseminatefertilizeget/put in the family wayknock upget into troublefecundateget with child
2
soak or saturate (something) with a substance.
wood that had been impregnated with preservative

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1. The tiny male paper nautilus, an octopus, impregnates the much larger female by shooting his penis (a modified tentacle) into her—and leaving it there.

2. Anthraquinone is an important and widely used raw material for the manufacture of vat dyes, which are a class of water-insoluble dyes that can easily be reduced to a water-soluble and usually colourless leuco form that readily impregnates ibres and textiles