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saturating |
1 definition found 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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