All 4 Uses
saturate
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Preliminary saturation bombing of Japanese military plants and cities was part of the plan.†
Chpt 6. *
- As the amtrac's ramp went down he yelled, "Come on, men!" and then fell flat on his face into the water-saturated volcanic ash.†
Chpt 7.
- His telltale "Unit 3" bag slapping at his side, my father sprinted through thirty yards of saturating cross fire—mortars and machine guns—to the wounded boy's side.†
Chpt 9.
- So saturated were their minds with visions of death that when they were splashed with the blood of a stricken buddy—as so many of them were—they perceived it as a kind of hallucinatory dream.†
Chpt 13.
Definitions:
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(1)
(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
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)