saturated

verb

  1. 1

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

    After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
  2. 2

    To fill to excess.

    Modern television is saturated with violence.
  3. 3

    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. 4

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Full; unable to hold or contain any more.

  2. 2

    Soaked or drenched with moisture.

  3. 3

    (of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.

  4. 4

    Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.

  5. 5

    (color) Having a high level of saturation.

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