saturate
/ˈsætʃəreɪt/
verb
- To make something completely wet or soaked with a liquid.
- The towel was saturated after being left in the rain.
- Make sure to saturate the sponge with water before cleaning the counter.
- Heavy rain saturated the ground, causing puddles everywhere.
- To fill something completely so that no more can be added or absorbed.
- The market is saturated with similar smartphone models.
- The air was saturated with the smell of fresh bread from the bakery.
- Too much information can saturate your mind and make it hard to focus.
- In chemistry, to cause a substance to combine with the maximum possible amount of another substance.
- The chemist needed to saturate the solution with salt to reach the desired concentration.
- The process can saturate the oil with hydrogen to make it solid.
- When you saturate water with sugar, you get a supersaturated solution.
Antonyms
adjective
- Very wet; completely soaked.
- The sponge was saturate and dripping onto the floor.
- After the storm, the fields were saturate with water.
- Her clothes were saturate from the sudden downpour.