saturate

verb

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.”

   “Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]”

   “Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow, saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.”

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

   “Modern television is saturated with violence.”

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.”

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

noun

1. Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.

   “Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.”

   “We estimate from Table 4 that the average deuterium content in the saturate is approximately 1.1 when palladium is the catalyst, 1.6 when platinum is the catalyst, and 1.7 when rhodium is the catalyst. If there were only deuterium on the surface, the saturate would average 2 deuteriums.”

adj

1. Saturated, wet, soaked.

   “The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.”

2. (broadly, poetic)Saturated, wet, soaked.

   “There she lay, […] Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun O' the morning that now flooded from the front And filled the window with a light like blood.”

3. Very intense.

   “saturate green”

4. (obsolete)Satisfied, satiated.
5. (obsolete)Complete, perfect.
6. (obsolete)Saturated.