Synonyms for saturate
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Verb
1. Drench — to cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid)
drench, impregnate, soak, infuse, pervade, infiltrate, wet, steep, imbue
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Definitions
- v. 1
To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
Rain saturated their clothes.
Related words
- Word family
- saturatable sate satisfy saturation
Forms
- Past participle
- saturated
e.g. saturated → drenched, impregnated, soaked, infused…
Example sentences
- soak You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water.
- impregnate Antonio managed to impregnate Rima.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| saturate | steady | |
| soak | rising | |
| infuse | rising | |
| impregnate | steady | |
| drench | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- wet1
- 4 letters
- soak1, sate1
- 5 letters
- steep1, imbue2
- 6 letters
- infuse2, drench1
- 7 letters
- pervade2
- 10 letters
- infiltrate3, impregnate3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (imbue2 = 2 syllables).