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单词 saturate
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saturateverb

uk/ˈsætʃ.ər.eɪt/us/ˈsætʃ.ər.eɪt/

saturate verb (MAKE WET)

[ T often passive ] to make something or someone completely wet:

The grass had been saturated by overnight rain.
He had cut his leg badly, and his trousers were saturated with/in blood.

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Wet weather & wetness

  • bedraggled
  • clammy
  • deluge
  • douse
  • dreich
  • dripping
  • drown
  • look like a drowned rat idiom
  • misty
  • mizzle
  • moist
  • moisten
  • rainy
  • rehydration
  • saturated
  • soaking
  • sodden
  • soggy
  • sun shower
  • sweat

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saturate verb (FILL)

[ T ] to fill a thing or place completely so that no more can be added:

The police saturated (= a large number of police officers were sent into) the area.
saturate the market

to provide too much of a product so that there is more of this product available than there are people who want to buy it:

Since the US market has now been saturated, drug dealers are looking to Europe.

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Filling and completing

  • brick
  • brick up sth
  • brim
  • crowd
  • crowd sb/sth out
  • fill
  • jam
  • occupancy
  • occupy
  • overcrowded
  • overran
  • overrun
  • plug
  • round
  • suffuse
  • supersaturated
  • tank
  • tank up
  • top sb up
  • top sth up

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Economics
saturation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌsætʃ.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsætʃ.əˈreɪ.ʃən/

market saturation

saturatenoun [ C usually plural, U ]

uk/ˈsætʃ.ə.rət/us/ˈsætʃ.ə.rət/

a saturated fat

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polyunsaturate

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Chemicals, chemical compounds & gases

  • acrolein
  • adenine
  • aldehyde
  • alkaline earth metal
  • alkane
  • ammonia
  • ammonium
  • butane
  • calcium sulphate
  • carbon monoxide
  • iodide
  • limewater
  • lye
  • nitrate
  • octane
  • paraben
  • phenolphthalein
  • sodium chloride
  • starch
  • sulphur dioxide

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