Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

    Rain saturated their clothes.

    After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.

    sättigen

    пропи́тыватьpropítyvatʹ, пропита́тьpropitátʹ, насыща́тьсяnasyščátʹsja

    просо́чуватиprosóčuvaty, просочи́тиprosočýty, наси́чуватиnasýčuvaty

  2. (figuratively, transitive)To fill thoroughly or to excess.

    Modern television is saturated with violence.

    infuse or fill completely

  3. (transitive)To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.

    One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

    sättigen

    насыща́тьnasyščátʹ, насы́титьnasýtitʹ

    cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance

  4. (transitive)To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

Examples

20 sentences

  1. Tom decided to cut back on saturated fats.

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  2. The job market is not saturated.

    ruРынок труда не насыщен. — Hellerick

    deDer Arbeitsmarkt ist nicht gesättigt. — MUIRIEL

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  3. The wood became saturated with water.

    ruДревесина пропиталась водой. — Wezel

    deDas Holz hat sich mit Wasser vollgesogen. — brauchinet

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  4. The wood's got saturated with water.

    ruДревесина пропиталась водой. — Wezel

    deDas Holz hat sich mit Wasser vollgesogen. — brauchinet

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  5. The ground is saturated with salt.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to cause to become penetrated or soaked:
Русский
By meaning 3
to cause to become penetrated or soaked:
to become penetrated or soaked:
(chemistry) to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to cause to become penetrated or soaked:

Origin

The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English,

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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Forms

saturates, saturating, saturated, saturated
Base formsaturate · to saturate
3rd person singularsaturates
Present participlesaturating
Past simplesaturated
Past participlesaturated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysaturate
he, she, itsaturates

Past simpleLesson

all personssaturated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave saturated
he, she, ithas saturated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill saturate

Synonyms

3 synonyms
soakB2drenchimpregnate
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsaturation

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
satisfyA2sativasatnavsatoshisaturationSaturdayA1satyrsauceA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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