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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Saturate  \Sat"u*rate\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Saturated};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Saturating}.]  [L.  saturatus  p.  p.  of  saturare  to 
  saturate,  fr  satur  full  of  food,  sated.  See  {Satire}.] 
  1.  To  cause  to  become  completely  penetrated,  impregnated,  or 
  soaked;  to  fill  fully;  to  sate. 
 
  Innumerable  flocks  and  herds  covered  that  vast 
  expanse  of  emerald  meadow  saturated  with  the 
  moisture  of  the  Atlantic.  --Macaulay. 
 
  Fill  and  saturate  each  kind  With  good  according  to 
  its  mind.  --Emerson. 
 
  2.  (Chem.)  To  satisfy  the  affinity  of  to  cause  to  become 
  inert  by  chemical  combination  with  all  that  it  can  hold 
  as  to  saturate  phosphorus  with  chlorine. 




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