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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