英语词汇“saturate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

saturatesaturate /ˈsætʃəˌreɪt/ verb [transitive]

ETYMOLOGYsaturate

Origin: 1500-1600 Latin, past participle of saturare, from satur having had enough

VERB TABLE

saturate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	saturate
	he, she, it	saturates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	saturated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have saturated
	he, she, it	has saturated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had saturated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will saturate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have saturated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am saturating
	he, she, it	is saturating
	you, we, they	are saturating
Past	I, he, she, it	was saturating
	you, we, they	were saturating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been saturating
	he, she, it	has been saturating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been saturating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be saturating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been saturating

1formal to make something very wet SYN soak: Heavy rains had saturated the ground.2to fill something completely with a large number of things, or with a large amount of something: saturate something with something The campaign saturated prime time television with ads.3saturate the market economics to offer so much of a product for sale that there is more of it than people want to buy4science, chemistry to dissolve (=mix until something becomes part of a liquid) as much of a solid into a chemical mixture as possible