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Definition

to completely wet

or:

to fill

in 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

We were caught in the rain and our clothes were saturated.

The bandage was saturated with blood.
The soil is saturated from the rain.
The secret to her sweet tea is that she adds the sugar while the water is still hot, so it will hold more sugar before it is saturated.
Our plan is to discourage competition by saturating the market at a low price.
The coal regions of Pennsylvania and West Virginia were saturated with fallout.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he'd planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
"It's over,' she said, "they've saturated me.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
The brick-and-stucco walls had been painted many times, and the colors blended in the saturating humidity.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
Then, having drank deeply and saturated us with his genius, we lose sight of him for another period of years.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Once I had the scalding water, I washed my hands and drew away the saturated towel between Mrs. Bradford's legs.
Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
It seemed to me that the humid garden that surrounded the house was infinitely saturated with invisible persons.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
In fact, their coming to the island instilled a hope that many of the children's problems could be solved by a saturation of fresh ideas and faces.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

The word saturated the air and echoed rich and heavy throughout the chamber.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Round the doorway the floor was merely sprinkled with rain, and not saturated, which told her that the door had not long been opened.
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
I want so badly to follow them, but the seawater saturates my wings, making it impossible to lift them.
Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay
She explained about this matter of Spiritual Saturation: "There are those—"
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt

It takes some time to get the jumpsuit off, and then we find his undergarments are saturated with blood as well.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
She could tell he was trying to sound sober, but the sour smell of booze saturated his breath and his sweat.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
Wherever those ashes-of-rose balls hung on their milky stalks, the air about them was saturated with their breath.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!

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