| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sat·u·rate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s ch  -r t |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: sat·u·rat·ed, sat·u·rat·ing, sat·u·rates
1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly: “The recollection was saturated with sunshine” (Vladimir Nabokov). See synonyms at charge. 2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity. 3. Chemistry To cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. | | ADJECTIVE: | (-r t) Saturated. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin saturre, saturt-, to fill, from satur, sated. See s- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | satu·ra·ble (schr--bl) —ADJECTIVE
satu·rator —NOUN
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