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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impregnate |
| Synonyms: | fertilize, implant, promulgate, seed, sow |
| Main Entry: | impregnate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infuse, fill; make pregnant |
| Synonyms: | charge, conceive, drench, fecundate, fertilize, imbrue, implant, inoculate, inseminate, leaven, overflow, percolate, permeate, pervade, procreate, produce, reproduce, saturate, seethe, soak, sodden, souse, steep, suffuse, transfuse |
| Antonyms: | deplete, take out |
| Main Entry: | inculcate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | implant, infuse information |
| Synonyms: | brainwash*, break down, communicate, drill, drum into, educate, hammer into, impart, impress, indoctrinate, inseminate, instill, instruct, plant, program, shape up, teach, work over |
| Notes: | one inculcates an idea or habit into people by persistent instruction; one indoctrinates people with certain values or beliefs through repeated instruction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | instill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | implant, introduce |
| Synonyms: | brainwash*, catechize, diffuse, disseminate, engender, engraft, force in, imbue, impart, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix, infuse, inject, inoculate, inseminate, insert, insinuate, inspire, interject, intermix, program, propagandize, put in head, suffuse, transfuse |
| Antonyms: | dislodge, halt, stop, uproot |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | breed, reproduce |
| Synonyms: | bear, beget, engender, father, fecundate, fertilize, generate, grow, impregnate, increase, inseminate, make pregnant, mother, multiply, originate, procreate, produce, proliferate, raise, sire |
| Antonyms: | destroy, kill |
| Main Entry: | sow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, disject, disseminate, drill, fling, grow, implant, inseminate, lodge, pitch, propagate, put in, raise, scatter, seed, strew, toss |
| Antonyms: | dig, harvest, reap |
| Main Entry: | knock up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make pregnant |
| Synonyms: | impregnate, inseminate, procreate, spermatize |
| Main Entry: | fecundate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impregnate |
| Synonyms: | conceive, enrich, fertilize, fructify, inseminate, make pregnant, nourish |
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