Saturating

verb

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.verbTo cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

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

2.verbTo fill to excess.

"Modern television is saturated with violence."

3.verbTo 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.verbTo render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

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