saturate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]
2. 2

   To fill thoroughly or to excess.

   • Modern television is saturated with violence.
3. 3

   To satisfy the affinity of

   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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   1. 4

      To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

   2. 5

      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.
   3. 6

      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.
   4. 7

      Very intense.

      • saturate green
   5. 8

      Satisfied, satiated.

   6. 9

      Complete, perfect.

   7. 10

      Saturated.

The neighborhood

• neighborsate
• neighborsatis
• neighborsatisfy
• neighborsaturation