saturate
verb
• cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with water or other liquid so that no more can be absorbed.
• "the soil is saturated"
Similar:
soak,
drench,
waterlog,
wet through,
wet,
souse,
steep,
douse,
impregnate,
ret,
drouk,
sop,
Opposite:
dry out,
saturate
noun
• a saturated fat.
• "as far as the heart is concerned saturates are considered the main enemy"
saturate
adjective
• saturated with moisture.
Origin:
late Middle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘satisfied’): from Latin saturat- ‘filled, glutted’, from the verb saturare, from satur ‘full’. The early sense of the verb (mid 16th century) was ‘satisfy’; the noun dates from the 1950s.
