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Saturate
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- 1 Saturated, wet, soaked.
"The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest."
- 2 Saturated, wet, soaked.; Dripping with, covered with, exuding (something) [with with]. broadly, poetic
"There she lay, […] Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun O' the morning that now flooded from the front And filled the window with a light like blood."
- 3 Very intense.
"saturate green"
- 4 Satisfied, satiated. obsolete
- 5 Complete, perfect. obsolete
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- 6 Saturated. obsolete
- 1 Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
"Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate."
- 1 To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid). transitive
"Rain saturated their clothes."
- 2 cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance wordnet
- 3 To fill thoroughly or to excess. figuratively, transitive
"Modern television is saturated with violence."
- 4 infuse or fill completely wordnet
- 5 To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold. transitive
"One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine."
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- 6 To render pure, or of a colour free from white light. transitive
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).
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).
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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