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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
saturate \sat"urate\, v. t. 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.
      1913 webster

            innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast
            expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the
            moisture of the atlantic.             --macaulay.
      1913 webster

            fill and saturate each kind
            with good according to its mind.      --emerson.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
saturated saturating satire 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
saturate \sat"urate\, p. a. l. saturatus, p. p.
   filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.
   1913 webster

         dries his feathers saturate with dew.    --cowper.
   1913 webster

         the sand beneath our feet is saturate
         with blood of martyrs.                   --longfellow.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
saturate
     v 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
see also:
impregnate 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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