saturate.
To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
Meaning & usage
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.
To fill thoroughly or to excess.
Modern television is saturated with violence.
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.
To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
Where this word comes from
The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
Where this word comes from
The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Saturated, wet, soaked.
Saturated, wet, soaked. Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with].
Very intense.
saturate green
Satisfied, satiated.
Complete, perfect.
Saturated.
Where this word comes from
The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
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