saturate Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
verb infuse or fill completely
impregnate.
- Impregnate the cloth with alcohol

L. saturatus, p.p. of saturate to saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See Satire.

imperfect & past participle Saturated ; present participle & verbal noun Saturating

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
Innumerable flocks and herbs 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.
(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.

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.