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Saturate

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

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Manner of action 8

Alcoholize 76% connected

To reduce to a fine powder.

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Charge 76% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Drench 76% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Imbrue 76% connected

To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood.

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Imbue 76% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Medicate 76% connected

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Stuff 76% connected

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Broader term 4

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Saturation 74% connected

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

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Saturation 74% connected

The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.

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Synonym 1

Impregnate 92% connected

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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