saturate
verb /ˈsætʃəreɪt/
/ˈsætʃəreɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they saturate | /ˈsætʃəreɪt/ /ˈsætʃəreɪt/ |
| he / she / it saturates | /ˈsætʃəreɪts/ /ˈsætʃəreɪts/ |
| past simple saturated | /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪd/ /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪd/ |
| past participle saturated | /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪd/ /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form saturating | /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪŋ/ /ˈsætʃəreɪtɪŋ/ |
- saturate something to make something completely wet synonym soak
- The continuous rain had saturated the soil.
- Condensation can saturate the insulation, rendering it useless.
- The heavy autumn rains saturate the ground.
- [often passive] to fill something/somebody completely with something so that it is impossible or useless to add any more
- be saturated (with/in something) Newspapers were saturated with reports about the royal wedding.
Word Originlate Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘satisfied’): from Latin saturat- ‘filled, glutted’, from the verb saturare, from satur ‘full’. The early sense of the verb (mid 16th cent.) was ‘satisfy’.