Synonyms and antonyms of Conception and making someone pregnant in British Thesaurus

artificial insemination (noun)

a medical treatment in which a man’s sperm (=cells from his sex organs) are put into a woman’s womb (=the part of her body where a baby can grow) so that she can become pregnant

assisted reproduction (noun)

the medical processes that doctors use to help couples who cannot have a baby naturally, including processes such as IVF

beget (verb)

an old word meaning ‘to become the father of a child’

breed (verb)

humorous to have children

breed like rabbits ()

to have a lot of children

conceive (verb)

to become pregnant

conceive (verb)

a baby is conceived when its mother becomes pregnant

conception (noun)

biology the moment when a woman or female animal becomes pregnant after sex

father (verb)

if a man fathers a child, he makes a woman pregnant and becomes a father

fertilise ()

a British spelling of fertilize

fertilization (noun)

biology the process of fertilizing an egg or a female animal or plant

fertilize (verb)

biology to provide the male cell that will join with a female cell produced by a woman, female animal, or plant and make a new person, animal, or plant

get someone into trouble ()

to make a woman who is not married pregnant

impregnate (verb)

formal to make a woman or female animal pregnant

inbreeding (noun)

the process of producing children or animals from parents who are close members of the same family

inseminate (verb)

formal to put sperm into a woman or female animal in order to make her pregnant

in vitro fertilization (noun)

IVF

IVF (noun)

in vitro fertilization: the medical process in which a woman’s egg is fertilized outside her body and then put back inside to grow into a baby

knock up (offensive)

offensive to make a woman pregnant

ovum (noun)

an egg that can grow into a baby inside the body of a woman or a female animal

prolific (adjective)

producing a lot of babies, or young plants or animals

sexual reproduction (noun)

reproduction in which male and female cells join together and combine their genetic information to form a new cell, called a zygote

sire (verb)

old-fashioned to become the father of a child

sperm (noun)

a cell from a man that fertilizes the egg inside a woman’s body and makes her pregnant

sperm bank (noun)

a place where sperm is frozen and stored so that it can be used later to make women pregnant