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单词 oversaturate
释义

oversaturate

verb

over·​sat·​u·​rate ˌō-vər-ˈsa-chə-ˌrāt How to pronounce oversaturate (audio)
oversaturated; oversaturating

transitive verb

: to saturate to an excessive degree
… since the company went public, it's been opening so many stores that it's at risk of oversaturating its own market … Angela Mulholland
… the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge … slipped several feet in February when storms oversaturated the underlying soil. Kurtis Alexander
… settings that don't oversaturate colors or look too dim. Dieter Bohn
also : supersaturate
oversaturated the water with salt
oversaturated adjective
… delivers impressive image quality. Colors are bright and realistic without being oversaturated. Luisa Simone
Perhaps you remember a chemistry experiment from high school: You dissolve a salt in hot water, let the solution cool down, put a small crystal in the now oversaturated solution—then all of a sudden crystals form. Bert J. M. de Vries
oversaturation
ˌō-vər-ˌsa-chə-ˈrā-shən How to pronounce oversaturate (audio)
adjective
oversaturation of the market with too many action films
… colors usually struck a nice balance between accurate and pleasant oversaturation. Mitt Jones

Word History

First Known Use

1745, in the meaning defined above

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