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]:
Saturated \Sat"u*ra'ted\, adjective
1. Filled to repletion; holding by absorption, or in solution, all that is possible; as, saturated garments; a saturated solution of salt.
2. (Chem.) Having its affinity satisfied; combined with all it can hold; -- said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with {unsaturated}.
Note: A saturated compound may exchange certain ingredients for others, but can not take on more without such exchange.
{Saturated color} (Optics), a color not diluted with white; a pure unmixed color, like those of the spectrum.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution" [syn: {concentrated}] [ant: {unsaturated}]
2: wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes" [syn: {drenched}, {soaked}, {soaking}, {sodden}, {sopping}, {soppy}]
3: used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled; "saturated fats" [ant: {unsaturated}]
4: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or gray or black [syn: {pure}] [ant: {unsaturated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "saturated": SRO, allayed, awash, bathed, bloated, brimful, brimming, bulging, bursting, capacity, chock-full, choked, chuck-full, cloyed, congested, cram-full, crammed, crawling, creeping, crowded, deluged, dipped, disgusted, distended, drenched, dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engorged, engulfed, farci, fed-up, filled, filled to overflowing, flooded, flush, full, full of, full to bursting, glutted, gorged, honeycombed, hyperemic, immersed, in spate, inundated, jaded, jam-packed, jammed, macerated, oozing, overblown, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overgorged, overladen, overloaded, oversaturated, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweighted, packed, packed like sardines, permeated, plenary, plethoric, ready to burst, replete, round, running over, sated, satiated, satisfied, seeping, shot through, sick of, slaked, soaked, soaking, soaking wet, soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, standing room only, steeped, stuffed, stuffed up, submerged, submersed, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swamped, swarming, swollen, teeming, tired of, topful, waterlogged, watersoaked, weeping, weltering, wet, whelmed, with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of, wringing wet
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