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saturate

Pronunciation: /ˈsatjʊɹeɪt/

The English word “saturate” has 11 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
  2. To fill thoroughly or to excess.
  3. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
  4. To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

noun

  1. Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.

adjective

  1. Saturated, wet, soaked.
  2. Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with].
  3. Very intense.
  4. Satisfied, satiated.
  5. Complete, perfect.
  6. Saturated.

Etymology

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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