as in soaks
to wet thoroughly with liquid
saturate your hair with water before applying the dye
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Recent Examples of saturates
Then there's the sun, whose light saturates the atmosphere from dawn until dusk, shielding the cosmos from our sight.
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Otherwise, water saturates the soil and kills plants.
—Midwest Living, 14 Apr. 2026
Water pools in your eyes as serotonin saturates your nervous system.
—Maya Silver, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
Here, an easy sauce of olive oil, lemon juice, fresh rosemary, capers, and garlic saturates whole small red potatoes and crispy chicken thighs and legs in flavor.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This gives your poinsettia a long, deep drink that saturates the roots without drowning them.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
The result is a geomagnetic storm that amplifies the ionospheric and radio disruptions caused by flares and saturates the radiation belts surrounding Earth to such an extent that new belts can suddenly form.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The deal marks the latest major investment by AT&T to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.
—CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Otherwise, water saturates the soil and kills plants.
—Midwest Living, 14 Apr. 2026
Water pools in your eyes as serotonin saturates your nervous system.
—Maya Silver, Outside, 25 Feb. 2026
Here, an easy sauce of olive oil, lemon juice, fresh rosemary, capers, and garlic saturates whole small red potatoes and crispy chicken thighs and legs in flavor.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 16 Feb. 2026
Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined.
—Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
This gives your poinsettia a long, deep drink that saturates the roots without drowning them.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Dec. 2025
The result is a geomagnetic storm that amplifies the ionospheric and radio disruptions caused by flares and saturates the radiation belts surrounding Earth to such an extent that new belts can suddenly form.
—Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
The deal marks the latest major investment by AT&T to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.
—CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for saturates
Verb
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Keane soaks the broccoli rabe, blanches it and squeezes out the bitter liquid.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
15 Apr. 2026
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Bavel’s Hummus Masabacha Bavel chef-owner Ori Menashe soaks his garbanzo beans overnight then cooks them until tender.—
Restaurant Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Their gigantic bigotry drowns out their smaller accomplishments.—
Alan M. Dershowitz,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
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But the staggering amount of money poured into this club by BlueCo over the past three years drowns out all attempts at mitigation and erases all excuses.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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One of Johnson’s timeliest essays, though, is about Alien, Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror about an extraterrestrial creature that forcibly impregnates a member of a commercial hauling ship, killing him when the alien fetus bursts out of his abdomen.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Splashdown sends boats careening into a wall of water that drenches riders and onlookers alike, welcome relief in triple-digit heat.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Or, systemic insecticide treatments with dinotefuran or imidacloprid can be used as trunk sprays, trunk injections or soil drenches depending on the label.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Saturates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saturates. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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