ingravidate

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/ɪŋˈɡɹævɪdeɪt/

verb

To impregnate (literal or figurative).

OriginLatin ingravidatus →
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Meanings

verbingravidate (third-person singular simple present ingravidates, present participle ingravidating, simple past and past participle ingravidated)

present singular third person ingravidates · participle present ingravidating · participle past ingravidated · past ingravidated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo impregnate (literal or figurative).

    they may keep stews in their hearts, and be so pregnant and ingravidated with lustfull thought

    1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latiningravidatus
  2. Englishingravidate

From Latin ingravidatus, past participle of ingravidare (“to impregnate”).

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APA

ingravidate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingravidate

MLA

“ingravidate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingravidate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ingravidate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingravidate.

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