saturated

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English

Definitions

verb

To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).“After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.”
To fill to excess.“Modern television is saturated with violence.”
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.”
To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

adjective

Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
Soaked or drenched with moisture.
(of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.

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Synonyms

drenched saturated sodden intense vivid concentrated soppy soaking sopping soaked wet pure supersaturated overcrowded overloaded strained crowded

Associated

unsaturated stearic fats oleic fatty cholesterol ldl fat vapour vapor calories acids

Rhymes

elated exasperated agitated infatuated aggravated inundated irritated sophisticated antiquated reiterated

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