saturate

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sat·u·rate1 /ˈsætʃəreɪt/ verb [transitiveT]

1 formalWET to make something very wet 浸湿，使湿透 SYN soak OPP dry

Water poured through the hole, saturating the carpet.

水从洞里流进来，浸湿了地毯。

2 FULLto put a lot of something into a particular place, especially so that you could not add any more 使充满，使充斥

saturate something with something

Our culture is saturated with television and advertising.

我们的文化里充斥着电视和广告。

3. saturate the market BBTto offer so much of a product for sale that there is more than people want to buy 使市场饱和

Examples from the Corpus

saturate the market• Indeed, Clark inked her deal as a wave of Simpson-related titles began saturating the market, with varying success.

4. technicalHC to mix as much of a solid into a chemical mixture as possible 使〔化学溶液〕饱和

Examples from the Corpus

saturate• The pervading citrus smell of aftershave, the same smell that had saturated Brady's apartment and Feldman's studio.• He declared that the boiler was a straight forward Stephenson saturated design which couldn't really be improved.• Issa is saturating local radio time with his campaign ads.• In the mid nineties the rate of new infections began to level off in some heavily saturated nations.• Hoots of triumph crashed through the shrinking kitchen like the trumpeting of elephants, saturating the air.• The bathtub overflowed, and water saturated the carpeting.• Heavy rains had saturated the ground, turning the streets into rivers.• Saturate the label with vinegar and let it sit before you try to scrape it off the bottle.• Children whose entire existence has been saturated with these accoutrements reached college age during the 1990s.