All 3 Uses of
saturate
in
Catch-22
- Separate trickles of blood spilled to a puddle on the floor through one saturated trouser leg like countless unstoppable swarms of wriggling red worms.†
Chpt 26 *
- He circled on tiptoe the grotesque debris and came near a doorway containing a crying soldier holding a saturated handkerchief to his mouth, supported as he sagged by two other soldiers waiting in grave impatience for the military ambulance that finally came clanging up with amber fog lights on and passed them by for an altercation on the next block between a civilian Italian with books and a slew of civilian policemen with armlocks and clubs.†
Chpt 39
- It was impossible to tell where the shreds of his saturated coveralls ended and the ragged flesh began.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
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(saturate) to completely wet
or:
to fillin various senses, including:- chemistry: saturate a solution -- to fill a solution with as much of something as it can hold
- business: saturate a market -- to fill a market with a good
- advertising: saturation advertising -- to advertise a great deal
- military: saturation bombing -- to bomb an area extensively
- color theory: color saturation -- color intensity
- biology: saturated fat -- filled with hydrogen atoms (most people eat more than is healthy)
- physics: magnetic saturation -- intensity of a magnetic charge