impregnate - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

brainwash collapse: submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly; persuade completely, often through coercion; "The propaganda brainwashed many people"

inculcate collapse: teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation"

indoctrinate collapse: teach doctrines to; teach uncritically; "The Moonies indoctrinate their disciples"

instill collapse: enter drop by drop; "instill medication into my eye"; impart gradually; "Her presence instilled faith into the children"; "transfuse love of music into the students"

imbrue collapse: permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"

fructify collapse: bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify"; make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified"; become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified"

inoculate collapse: impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune; insert a bud for propagation; introduce a microorganism into; introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs"

suffuse collapse: cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"; to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"

inseminate collapse: introduce semen into (a female); place seeds in or on (the ground); "sow the ground with sunflower seeds"

catechize collapse: examine through questioning and answering; give religious instructions to

inject collapse: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"; to introduce (a new aspect or element); "He injected new life into the performance"; feed intravenously; take by injection; "inject heroin"; force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon"

fertilize collapse: provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"; make fertile or productive; "The course fertilized her imagination"

permeate collapse: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

macerate collapse: soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system"; become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water"; separate into constituents by soaking

submerge collapse: cover completely or make imperceptible; "I was drowned in work"; "The noise drowned out her speech"; put under water; "submerge your head completely"; sink below the surface; go under or as if under water

leaven collapse: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"; a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

transfuse collapse: give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to; pour out of one vessel into another

sop collapse: a concession given to mollify or placate; "the offer was a sop to my feelings"; piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid; dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce"; be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid; give a conciliatory gift or bribe to

saturate collapse: cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

enrich collapse: make better or improve in quality; "The experience enriched her understanding"; "enriched foods"; make wealthy or richer; "the oil boom enriched a lot of local people"

implant collapse: a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue; become attached to and embedded in the uterus; "The egg fertilized in vitro implanted in the uterus of the birth mother with no further complications"; fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"

infuse collapse: introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"; undergo the process of infusion; "the mint tea is infusing"

fatten collapse: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child"

dredge collapse: a power shovel to remove material from a channel or riverbed; remove with a power shovel, usually from a bottom of a body of water; search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something valuable or lost; cover before cooking; "dredge the chicken in flour before frying it"

rinse collapse: washing lightly without soap; the act of giving a light tint to the hair; the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing; a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint; wash off soap or remaining dirt

dye collapse: a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair; color with dye; "Please dye these shoes"

souse collapse: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled; cook in a marinade; "souse herring"; become drunk or drink excessively

leach collapse: the process of leaching; remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"; permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground"; cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate

bathe collapse: the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe"; cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily"; clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day"; suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight"

infiltrate collapse: pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict; pass into or through by filtering or permeating; "the substance infiltrated the material"; cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices; enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor"

absorb collapse: cause to become one with; "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax"; engage or engross wholly; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely"; take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe"; assimilate or take in; "The immigrants were quickly absorbed into society"; take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words"; become imbued; "The liquids, light, and gases absorb"; take up, as of debts or payments; "absorb the costs for something"; suck or take up or in; "A black star absorbs all matter"

infix collapse: an affix that is inserted inside the word; attach a morpheme into a stem word

drench collapse: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"; force to drink

Wordage.info