Impregnate vs Imbrue - What's the difference?
impregnate | imbrue | Synonyms |
To cause to become pregnant.
To fertilize.
To saturate, or infuse.
To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
(dated) To become pregnant.
To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
* 1837 : Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II,
Impregnate is a synonym of imbrue.
As verbs the difference between impregnate and imbrue
is that impregnate is to cause to become pregnant while imbrue is to stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc).impregnate
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Verb
(impregnat)- I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.
- It is recommended to impregnate new shoes before wearing them.
- (Addison)
Anagrams
* ----imbrue
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Alternative forms
* embrueVerb
pages 275–276]([[w:Bentley's Miscellany, Richard Bentley])
- Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.