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- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| pronunciation: |
sae
ch r
eIt
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| 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
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| 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
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| definition 3: |
in chemistry, to cause (a substance) to absorb or dissolve another substance to capacity.
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| definition 4: |
to cause (a compound) to combine chemically so that all available bonds are filled.
- similar words:
- hydrogenate
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| definition 5: |
to oversupply (a market) with goods.
- synonyms:
- flood, glut, oversupply, surfeit
- similar words:
- fill, overload, overwhelm
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| related words: |
bathe, charge, cloy, immerse, penetrate, sate, satiate, soak, wash |
adverb + (v.)saturate
already, completely, fully, heavily, highly, thoroughly, totally
(v.)saturate
+ noun
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
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| pronunciation: |
sae
chr
iht
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| definition: |
completely filled or soaked; saturated.
- synonyms:
- drenched, soaked, sodden, sopping
- similar words:
- steeped, waterlogged, wet
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| derivation: |
saturater (saturator) (n.) |
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