单词 | saturate |
释义 | sat·u·rate I. 1. < a surfeit of war and massive injustice have saturated our capacity for moral indignation — John Barkham > 2. < saturate an acid with an alkali > 3. a. < saturate a sponge with water > < the whole house was saturated with the aroma — Ellen Glasgow > < moonglow … saturates an empty sky — Henry Miller > b. < the novel … is saturated with individualism and liberal culture — V.S.Pritchett > < this little town with its giant elms is saturated with … traditions — E.A.Weeks > < literary men saturate themselves in attitudes that have become irrelevant — H.J.Muller > c. < jet operations already saturate all air space between 20,000 ft. and 40,000 ft. — Time > < the two-million dollar … campaign, which saturated radio and television for two weeks before election day — Robert Bendiner > specifically < believed that 8000 machines … would about saturate the market — Bryan Morgan > d. (1) (2) 4. a. < saturate air with water vapor > b. c. d. Synonyms: see permeate II. < seaweed can loll in the water, buoyed by it and even saturate with it — D.C.Peattie > < words … have become enriched by many associations, saturate with many colors — Havelock Ellis > < a saturate solution of silver > III. |
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