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Saturate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly: "The recollection was saturated with sunshine” ( Vladimir Nabokov). See Synonyms at charge.

v. To soak, fill, or load to capacity.

v. Chemistry To cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.

adj. Saturated.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; imbue.

v. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

v. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.

adj. Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To fill full or to excess; cause to be thoroughly penetrated or imbued; soak: as, to saturate a sponge with water; a mind saturated with prejudice.

In chem., to impregnate or unite with till no more can be received: thus, an acid saturates an alkali, and an alkali saturates an acid, when the point of neutralization has been reached, and the mixture is neither acid nor basic in its character.

In physics: To bring (a given space or a vapor) into a state of saturation. See saturation .

To magnetize (a magnet) to saturation, or so that the intensity of its magnetization is the greatest which it can retain when not under the inductive action of a strong magnetic field.

In optics, to render pure, or free from admixture of white light: said of colors.

To satisfy.

Saturated.

In entomology, deep; very intense: applied to colors: as, saturate green, umber, black, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. infuse or fill completely

v. cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

Word Usage

"My new strategy begins like the old, with "shock and awe," but this time let us "saturate" the cities and the villages of Yemen, not with explosives and incendiaries, but rather with food, potable water, clothing, medicines and even money."

Verb Form

saturated saturates saturating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

change modify alter

Cross Reference

impregnate

Form

saturated saturating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sate saturated soaked fill imbue

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

short-chain polyunsaturated unsaturated low-molecular-weight nonpolar