Definition of "saturate" in English

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.

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

   • Modern television is saturated with violence.

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

noun

1. (chemistry) Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.

adjective

1. Saturated, wet, soaked.

2. (entomology) Very intense.

   • saturate green

3. (obsolete) Satisfied, satiated.

4. (obsolete) Complete, perfect.

5. (obsolete, chemistry) Saturated.