'Saturate' definitions:
Definition of 'saturate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
verb
Infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" [syn: impregnate, saturate]
Definition of 'Saturate'
From: GCIDE
- Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.] Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked. [1913 Webster]
- Dries his feathers saturate with dew. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Saturate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'saturate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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