Saturate
['sætʃəreɪt] or ['sætʃərɪt]
Definition
(verb.) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
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Definition
(v. t.) To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
(v. t.) 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.
(p. a.) Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Drench, fill full (with a liquid absorbed), impregnate or imbue fully.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Soak, impregnate, infuse, steep, sate
ANT:Wring, drain, exsiccate, dry, divert, empty, deprive, disimpregnate
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Definition
v.t. to fill: to unite with till no more can be received: to fill to excess: to soak: (opt.) to render pure or of a colour free from white light.—adjs. Sat′ūrable that may be saturated; Sat′ūrant saturating; Sat′ūrate saturated: (entom.) very intense as 'saturate green.'—ns. Sat′ūrāter; Satūrā′tion act of saturating: state of being saturated: the state of a body when quite filled with another.
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Examples
- He wanted to touch them all, to saturate himself with the touch of them all. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was such a fine, cool, subtle touch all over him, he seemed to saturate himself with their contact. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It consists of a series of silk disks saturated with a sizing of plumbago and well dried. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The principle of the lamp is similar to that of the candle, except that the wick is saturated with kerosene or oil rather than with fat. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Venn now bethought himself of his clothes, which were saturated with water to the weight of lead. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- In passing through materials saturated with water, the shield is assisted by using compressed air in the working chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- His valet stood behind him with a smelling-bottle ready in one hand, and a white handkerchief, saturated with eau-de-Cologne, in the other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I, who might always be said--to--to--to harness myself to a watering-cart full of money, and go about saturating Society every day of my life. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The control is inescapable; it saturates disposition. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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