English words for 'Relating to impregnation.'
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adj
noun
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
- (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
- (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
noun
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
- The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
- (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- material with which something is impregnated
adj
- Capable of being impregnated; impregnatable.
- (figuratively) Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.
- (military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.
- capable of conceiving
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted
noun
- The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).
- A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
- the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
- the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female
verb
- make infertile
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- make infertile
- make free from bacteria
- (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
- (transitive, astronomy) To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction.
- (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
- (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
- (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.
noun
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
adj
verb
verb
- (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.
- (British) To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- (racket sports, intransitive) To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
- make pregnant
noun
- the condition of being impure
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
noun
- The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
- (medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
- neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
- loss of power and masculinity
noun
verb
- (figuratively, of a male) To spread one's genes around by impregnating many females.
- (by extension, often of young adults or the recently divorced) To indulge in a period of irresponsible behavior.
- (by extension, of a male or female) To engage in premarital or extramarital flings.
- (by extension, of a male or female) To have numerous sexual partners.
- live promiscuously and self-indulgently
noun
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
adj
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
- the sterilization of an animal
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- the act of putting something in working order again
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
- See fixings.
- (UK, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc)
verb
noun
- That with which anything is impregnated.
- The act of making pregnant; fertilization.
- The fact or process of imbuing or saturating with something; diffusion of some element, idea etc. through a medium or substance.
- (geology) An ore deposit, with indefinite boundaries, consisting of rock impregnated with ore.
- creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant
- the process of totally saturating something with a substance
- material with which something is impregnated
noun
- The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).
- A sowing of seed; the act of inseminating.
- the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
- the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female
noun
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
adj
verb
noun
- the condition of being impure
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
noun
- The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.
- The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness.
- (medicine) The removal of the penis, testicles, and scrotum of (a male person or animal).
- neutering a male animal by removing the testicles
- loss of power and masculinity
noun
noun
- (slang) Infertile semen.
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- (literature) Blank verse .
- (chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- (dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee .
- (firearms) Ellipsis of blank cartridge [since the 19th century].
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- (Scrabble, Words With Friends) A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero.
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word [since the 18th century]
- (figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- (now chiefly US) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- (electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- a blank gap or missing part
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- a piece of material ready to be made into something
- a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing
adj
- (military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless; futile.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- (figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Abject; absolute; complete; downright; sheer; utter.
- (figurative) Without expression, usually because of incomprehension.
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- not charged with a bullet
- complete and absolute
- without comprehension
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
verb
- (transitive) To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- (intransitive) To become blank.
- (transitive, slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- (transitive, aviation, of a control surface) To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- (transitive) To make void; to erase.
- (intransitive, informal) To experience a temporary lapse of memory; to be temporarily unable to remember a particular fact. (Commonly used in the first person, present progressive tense, and commonly followed by on to create a transitive phrasal verb.)
- keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
noun
- the sterilization of an animal
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- the act of putting something in working order again
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.
- See fixings.
- (UK, usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc)
verb
verb
- make infertile
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- to be about to do something
- make fixed, stable or stationary
- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- set or place definitely
- take vengeance on or get even
- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
- cause to be firmly attached
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
- decide upon or fix definitely
- put (something somewhere) firmly
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
noun
- informal terms for a difficult situation
- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
- a determination of the place where something is
- the act of putting something in working order again
- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
- A repair or corrective action.
- (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
- (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- An understanding, grasp of something.
- A determination of location.
verb
- make infertile
- make free from bacteria
- (transitive) To deprive of the ability to procreate.
- (transitive, astronomy) To render a planet like Earth permanently uninhabitable to all life, including even microbes, causing their complete extinction.
- (transitive, biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and spores on a surface, in a fluid, or contained in a compound, such as culture media or a medical product.
- (transitive) To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
- (transitive) To redact (a document), removing classified or sensitive material.
verb
- (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.
- (British) To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- (racket sports, intransitive) To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
- make pregnant
verb
- (figuratively, of a male) To spread one's genes around by impregnating many females.
- (by extension, often of young adults or the recently divorced) To indulge in a period of irresponsible behavior.
- (by extension, of a male or female) To engage in premarital or extramarital flings.
- (by extension, of a male or female) To have numerous sexual partners.
- live promiscuously and self-indulgently
adj
noun
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
- (figuratively) Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
- (US, specifically) A prophylactic condom.
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
adj
- Capable of being impregnated; impregnatable.
- (figuratively) Too strong to be defeated or overcome; invincible.
- (military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.
- capable of conceiving
- immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
- incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted