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saturate

sat·u·rate

saturate

 
 
parts of speech:
transitive verb, adjective
features:
Word Combinations (verb)
part of speech: transitive verb
pronunciation: sae chr eIt
inflections: saturates, saturating, saturated
definition 1: to fill or soak so completely that nothing more can be absorbed.
The heavy rain saturated his clothes.
synonyms:
charge, drench, soak, sop
similar words:
douse, imbrue, imbue, souse, steep, suffuse, surfeit, wet
definition 2: to imbue or fill completely.
Her mind was saturated with facts and figures as she entered the exam room.His venomous speeches saturate his followers with hatred.
synonyms:
charge, imbue, infuse, steep
similar words:
fill, ingrain, inspire, permeate, pervade, suffuse, surfeit
definition 3: in chemistry, to cause (a substance) to absorb or dissolve another substance to capacity.
definition 4: to cause (a compound) to combine chemically so that all available bonds are filled.
similar words:
hydrogenate
definition 5: to oversupply (a market) with goods.
synonyms:
flood, glut, oversupply, surfeit
similar words:
fill, overload, overwhelm
Word Combinations  About this feature
adverb + (v.)saturate already, completely, fully, heavily, highly, thoroughly, totally
(v.)saturate + nounHelp advertising, air, airwaves, alcohol, blood, carbon, color, compound, consciousness, consideration, desire, detector, dioxide, downpour, emotion, fabric, gasoline, humidity, hydrogen, image, imagination, ink, inside, jacket, landscape, layer, marketplace, mechanism, nitrogen, observation, odor, pad, paper, poetry, print, saturation, scent, smell, snow, swab, sweat, tape, water, wave [See all][See only the most frequent]
 
part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: sae chr iht
definition: completely filled or soaked; saturated.
synonyms:
drenched, soaked, sodden, sopping
similar words:
steeped, waterlogged, wet
derivation: saturater (saturator) (n.)