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To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).

Example: After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.

To fill to excess.

Example: Modern television is saturated with violence.

To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.

Example: One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.

To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.

Full; unable to hold or contain any more.

Soaked or drenched with moisture.

(of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.

Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.