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[syn: impregnate, saturate]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saturated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Saturating.] [L. saturatus, p. p. of saturare to
saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See Satire.]
1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or
soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
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Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast
expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the
moisture of the Atlantic. --Macaulay.
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Fill and saturate each kind
With good according to its mind. --Emerson.
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2. (Chem.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become
inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold;
as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.]
Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
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Dries his feathers saturate with dew. --Cowper.
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The sand beneath our feet is saturate
With blood of martyrs. --Longfellow.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
saturate
v 1: cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic
material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of
another substance
2: infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with
alcohol" [syn: impregnate, saturate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "saturate":
allay, bathe, besprinkle, breathe, brew, brim, charge, chock,
choke, cloy, color, congest, cram, crowd, decoct, douche, dredge,
drench, drenched, dripping, drouk, dye, engorge, entincture, fill,
fill to overflowing, fill up, flavor, flush, freight, glut,
gluttonize, gorge, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse,
inject, inoculate, instill, interpenetrate, jade, jam, jam-pack,
lade, lave, leach, leaven, lixiviate, load, macerate, overburden,
overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, overlade,
overload, oversaturate, overstuff, overweight, pack, pad, pall,
penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pierce, probe, ram in,
rinse, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturated, season, seethe, slake,
soak, soaked, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, souse, soused, steep,
stuff, suffuse, supercharge, supersaturate, surcharge, surfeit,
temper, tincture, tinge, top off, transfuse, wad, wash, waterlog,
weight, wet