SATURATE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SATURATE?

Need another word that means the same as “saturate”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “saturate” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Saturate” are: impregnate, soak, drench, waterlog, wet through, wet, permeate, suffuse, imbue, pervade, steep, charge, infuse, inform, fill, spread throughout, flood, glut, swamp, oversupply, overfill, overload

Saturate as a Verb

Definitions of "Saturate" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “saturate” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Infuse or fill completely.
• Fill (something or someone) with something until no more can be held or absorbed.
• Put (a device) into a state in which no further increase in current is achievable.
• Supply (a market) beyond the point at which the demand for a product is satisfied.
• Magnetize or charge (a substance or device) fully.
• Cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
• Cause (something) to become thoroughly soaked with water or other liquid so that no more can be absorbed.
• Cause (a substance) to combine with, dissolve, or hold the greatest possible quantity of another substance.
• Overwhelm (an enemy target area) by concentrated bombing.

Synonyms of "Saturate" as a verb (22 Words)

charge	Cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on. I don t advise anyone to charge that barricade.
drench	Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged. Cool patios drenched in flowers.
fill	Fill or meet a want or need. Smoke filled the room.
flood	Of a flood force someone to leave their home. The dam burst flooding a small town.
glut	Supply with an excess of. He planned a treacherous murder to glut his desire for revenge.
imbue	Fill soak or imbue totally. His works are invariably imbued with a sense of calm and serenity.
impregnate	Fertilize (an ovum). The egg was impregnated.
inform	Act as an informer. He wrote to her informing her of the situation.
infuse	Fill, as with a certain quality. He did his best to infuse good humour into his voice.
overfill	Fill beyond capacity. Jean led the way slowly balancing her teacup which she had overfilled.
overload	Become overloaded. The wiring had been overloaded.
oversupply	Supply with an excess of. The country was oversupplied with lawyers.
permeate	Pass through. Water permeates sand easily.
pervade	Spread or diffuse through. The sense of crisis which pervaded Europe in the 1930s.
soak	Fill soak or imbue totally. The rain poured down soaking their hair.
spread throughout	Become widely known and passed on.
steep	Devote (oneself) fully to. Steep the blossoms in oil.
suffuse	Gradually spread through or over. The first half of the poem is suffused with idealism.
swamp	Overwhelm or flood with water. The life boat somehow did not swamp but made it to shore.
waterlog	Saturate with water make something waterlogged. The open roof allowed rain to waterlog the field.
wet	Cause to become wet. She was going to wet herself from fear.
wet through	Make one’s bed or clothes wet by urinating.

Usage Examples of "Saturate" as a verb

• The groundwater is saturated with calcium hydroxide.
• Japan's electronics industry began to saturate the world markets.
• The air is saturated with the smells of food.
• The soil is saturated.

Associations of "Saturate" (30 Words)

absorb	Take in and understand fully (information, ideas, or experience. The work absorbed him and continued to make him happy.
aqueous	Of or containing water. An aqueous solution of potassium permanganate.
assimilate	Make similar. Marie tried to assimilate the week s events.
awash	Covered with water. The city was awash with journalists.
dampen	Make less strong or intense. The fine rain dampened her face.
dampness	A slight wetness. The dampness in the air.
douse	Slacken. He doused the car with petrol and set it on fire.
drench	Drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged. A drench of sack.
humid	Marked by a relatively high level of water vapour in the atmosphere. Humid weather.
immersion	Baptism by immersing a person bodily (but not necessarily completely) in water. An immersion school.
impregnate	Make pregnant. An atmosphere impregnated with tension.
ingest	Absorb (information. They ingest oxygen from the air.
intense	Extremely sharp or intense. Intense anxiety.
macerate	Soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result. The fruit was allowed to macerate before fermentation.
moist	Marked by a fluid discharge. A moist breeze.
moisture	Wetness caused by water. In freshly felled wood the moisture content varies.
moisturize	Make (more) humid. Revitalize your face moisturize your skin.
permeable	Allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through. Permeable sandy soils.
porous	Allowing passage in and out. The partly porous walls of our digestive system.
rain	Of the sky the clouds etc send down rain. It was just raining glass.
sate	Supply (someone) with as much as or more of something than is desired or can be managed. I am sated.
saturated	Denoting fats containing a high proportion of fatty acid molecules without double bonds considered to be less healthy in the diet than unsaturated fats. A mass of saturated air decreases in temperature as it rises in the atmosphere.
soak	Washing something by allowing it to soak. Soak the beans overnight in water.
soaked	Extremely wet; saturated. He got absolutely soaked in the rain.
sodden	Having drunk an excessive amount of a particular alcoholic drink. His clothes were sodden.
sop	Soak up liquid using an absorbent substance. My agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work.
submerge	Sink below the surface; go under or as if under water. Submerge your head completely.
tincture	A substances that colors metals. The sky was tinctured red.
vapor	The process of becoming a vapor.
wet	Wetness caused by water. They thought the cadets were a bit wet.