| saturate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to fill, soak, or imbue totally |
| 2. | to make (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material, etc) saturated or (of a compound, vapour, etc) to become saturated |
| 3. | (tr) military to bomb or shell heavily |
| —adj | |
| 4. | a less common word for saturated |
| [C16: from Latin saturāre, from satur sated, from satis enough] | |
| satu'rater | |
| —n | |
| satu'rator | |
| —n | |
| to produce or obtain one substance from another |
| a colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid, C10H14N2, found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide |