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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. --Macaulay.
Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. --Emerson.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.] Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
Dries his feathers saturate with dew. --Cowper.
The sand beneath our feet is saturate With blood of martyrs. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
saturate
verb
1: cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material, etc.) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
2: infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol" [syn: {impregnate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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