Saturate

Quick meaning: Saturate is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Rain saturated their clothes.

One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

Modern television is saturated with violence.

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

Word Forms

• saturates
• saturating
• saturated

Synonyms for saturate

Depending on context, synonyms include drench, impregnate, soak, imbue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imbue, soak, impregnate, waterlog, unsaturated, flood.

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