vt. 使渗透, 浸透, 使充满, 使饱和

a. 浸透的, 饱和度高的, 深颜色的

n. 饱和化合物, 饱和脂肪酸

[医] 使饱和

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.


Saturate \Sat"u*rate\, p. a. [L. saturatus, p. p.]
Filled to repletion; saturated; soaked.

Dries his feathers saturate with dew. --Cowper.

The sand beneath our feet is saturate
With blood of martyrs. --Longfellow.