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Definition of impregnate : 1. Impregnated; made prolific.
2. To become pregnant.
3. To come into contact with ( an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.
4. To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
5. To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished ( with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.
6. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

Synonyms:

bang-up, conceive, indoctrinate, prang up, impress, teach, catechize, knock up, smash up, smash, charge, produce, fill up, full, ingrain, steep, tincture, transfuse, procreate, freight, propagate, instil, inculcate, implant

fertilize, inseminate, pollinate, fructify, fecundate

glut, soak, infuse, pervade, instill, penetrate, suffuse, saturate, permeate, seethe, fill, imbue, infiltrate

Usage examples:

• Crossing it, we came on many pine- trees; these had five- years' old cones on them, as well as those of all succeeding years; they bear male flowers in autumn, which impregnate the cones formed the previous year. - "Himalayan Journals V2.", J. D. Hooker.
• Clearly when last it was an impregnate ovum or some still lower form of life which resulted in that impregnate ovum. - "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.
• Drop out my father's and mother's lives between the dates of their being impregnate ova and the moment when I became an impregnate ovum. - "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.