impregnates

英 [ˈɪmpreɡneɪts]

美 [ɪmˈpreɡneɪts]

v.  使充满; 使遍布; 使怀孕; 使妊娠
impregnate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使浸透;浸渍
  If someone or somethingimpregnatesa thingwitha substance, they make the substance spread through it and stay in it.
  1. Undercover officers found drug-making equipment used to impregnate paper with LSD.
     卧底警官发现了用于使迷幻药浸透到纸里的毒品制造设备。
  2. ...a block of plastic impregnated with a light-absorbing dye.
     一块浸透吸光染料的塑料
• VERB 使受精;使怀孕
  When a man or a male animalimpregnatesa female, he makes her pregnant.
  1. Norman's efforts to impregnate her failed.
     诺曼想使她怀孕的努力失败了。

双语例句

• A great book impregnates the mind with new ideas.
  伟大的著作总是把新思想注入人心。
• The aim of this process was to disaggregate rock samples using the volume expansion of water that impregnates samples.
  其改进之处在于利用渗透于岩石样品中的水，在冷冻的情况下体积膨胀，而使岩石颗粒自然散开。