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Saturated

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

📖 Definitions of "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.

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