impregnate

Other forms of impregnate

past tense

impregnated·

present participle

impregnating·

third person

impregnates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about impregnate

What does impregnate mean?

impregnate means "fill, as with a certain quality". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in impregnate?

impregnate has 3 syllables: im-preg-nate. The stress falls on "preg". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈpɹɛɡˌneɪt/.

What is another word for impregnate?

Close synonyms include infuse, instill, tincture, saturate, knock up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impregnate a common word?

impregnate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with impregnate?

52 words rhyme with impregnate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.