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Impregnate vs Inseminable - What's the difference?

impregnate | inseminable |

As a verb impregnate

is to cause to become pregnant.

As an adjective inseminable is

able to be inseminated or impregnated.

impregnate

English

Verb

(impregnat)
  • To cause to become pregnant.
    • I was impregnated at a clinic but don't know who the sperm donor is.
  • To fertilize.
  • To saturate, or infuse.
  • To fill pores or spaces with a substance.
    • It is recommended to impregnate new shoes before wearing them.
  • (dated) To become pregnant.
    • (Addison)

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    inseminable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be inseminated or impregnated.
  • * 1971 , Gottfried Benn & E. B. Ashton, Primal vision: selected writings?
    • Woman is dethroned as the primary and supreme sex, debased into inseminable hetaera.
  • * 1996 , V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People?
    • No subject better brought to light the relationship between benevolence, sympathy, and oppositional thought than that of the wronged woman, particularly if she was of inseminable age and fetchingly vulnerable to male wiles.
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