saturate

Other forms of saturate

past tense

saturated·

present participle

saturating·

third person

saturates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about saturate

What does saturate mean?

saturate means "cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saturate?

saturate has 3 syllables: sat-u-rate. The stress falls on "sat". In IPA it is /ˈsætʃɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for saturate?

Close synonyms include impregnate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saturate a common word?

saturate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with saturate?

95 words rhyme with saturate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.