Meaning

(transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
2. (transitive, figurative) To fill thoroughly or to excess.
3. (transitive, chemistry) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
4. (transitive, optics) To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
5. (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
6. Saturated, wet, soaked.
7. (entomology) Very intense.
8. (obsolete) Satisfied, satiated.

Example Sentences

Rain saturated their clothes.

After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.

Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]

Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow, saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.

Modern television is saturated with violence.

One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.

We estimate from Table 4 that the average deuterium content in the saturate is approximately 1.1 when palladium is the catalyst, 1.6 when platinum is the catalyst, and 1.7 when rhodium is the catalyst. If there were only deuterium on the surface, the saturate would average 2 deuteriums.

Word Forms

• saturates
• saturating
• saturated
• more saturate
• most saturate

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Use saturate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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