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saturate

UK /ˈsatjʊɹət/US /ˈsæt͡ʃəɹət/

adjective 6
noun 1
/ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/ verb 4
forms 6

adjective6

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Saturated, wet, soaked.
- The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest. — 1785
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(literary) Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with].
- There she lay, […] Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun O' the morning that now flooded from the front And filled the window with a light like blood. — 1868
Very intense.
(no longer used) Saturated.
(no longer used) Satisfied, satiated.
(no longer used) Complete, perfect.

noun1

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Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
- Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate. — 1999

saturate

UK /ˈsatjʊɹeɪt/US /ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/

verb4

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To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
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To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
- One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
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(figurative) To fill thoroughly or to excess.
- Modern television is saturated with violence.
To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

forms

saturated · saturating · saturates · saturateth · more saturate · most saturate

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