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Saturating

Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saturated; p. pr. & vb. n. Saturating.] [L. saturatus, p. p. of saturare to saturate, fr. satur full of food, sated. See Satire.]

  1. To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

    Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
    --Macaulay.

    Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind.
    --Emerson.

  2. (Chem.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

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saturating

vb. (present participle of saturate English)

Usage examples of "saturating".

They were smothered in mud, hair hanging in soiled dreadlocks, spittle saturating their tufty beards, scratches bleeding, dribbles of red blood curdling with the mud.

A light hangs over her, saturating her in a pool of yellow light which imparts an ethereal beauty and accentuates her breasts.

It oozed its way through aether to fill the city, saturating the minds of the inhabitants, disturbing their rest, bringing forth monsters.

It was slick with the juices of a thousand other minds, saturating and staining the patch of psycho-sphere like cooking grease.

Blood was welling out of it in lazy pulses, dribbling across his belly and saturating his filthy clothes.

I’ve got two of Nyvan’s SD networks asking for our flight authorization at the same time they’re saturating our sensors with overload impulses.

The tremendous barrage of noise and light saturating the bar had faded.

It was slick with the juices of a thou­sand other minds, saturating and staining the patch of psycho-sphere like cooking grease.

Rain from the overflowing gutter has spilled down the boarded walls, saturating the wood.

Rivulets of condensation trickle down the windows, saturating the wooden frame.

Then, without warning, an enormous explosion erupted in the distance, saturating the display screens with white light.

The flotillas began to close ranks, saturating space with flaming missiles and harnessed light.

Puppetman reached out, slowly brightening the color and saturating it,until there was room for little else.

Puppetman felt Marvin's cold rage at that, and Puppetman licked at the emotion eagerly, saturating it.