saturating
Completely filling up
Saturating describes the process of filling something completely—soaking it through until it can hold no more.
Water saturates a sponge; color saturates an image when pushed to maximum intensity.
In chemistry, a saturating solution has dissolved all the solute it can accept.
Marketing campaigns saturate markets by flooding them with coverage: The company is saturating social media with ads.
Making thoroughly wet
- soakingCompletely saturated with liquid
- waterloggingSoil oversaturated with moisture
- floodingOverwhelming water accumulation
- inundatingFlooding or overwhelming completely
submerging · immersing · steeping · permeating · infusing · suffusing · penetrating · pervading
Overwhelming water accumulation
- inundatingFlooding or overwhelming completely
- swampingOverwhelming with excess
- engulfingSurrounding and consuming completely
- overloadingExceeding safe capacity
bombarding · deluging · overrunning · besieging · suffocating · drowning · blanketing · smothering
Overwhelming water accumulation
- gluttingFilling to excess
- oversupplyingFurnishing excessive quantities
- oversaturatingExceeding maximum capacity
- dominatingExercising supreme control
cornering · monopolizing · overproducing · supply · demand · surplus · excess · overcrowding
drenching
Making thoroughly wet
- soakingCompletely saturated with liquid
- waterloggingSoil oversaturated with moisture
- floodingOverwhelming water accumulation
inundating · submerging · immersing · steeping · permeating · infusing · suffusing · penetrating · pervading · imbuing
flooding
Overwhelming water accumulation
- inundatingFlooding or overwhelming completely
- swampingOverwhelming with excess
- engulfingSurrounding and consuming completely
overloading · bombarding · deluging · overrunning · besieging · suffocating · drowning · blanketing · smothering · burying
flooding
Overwhelming water accumulation
- gluttingFilling to excess
- oversupplyingFurnishing excessive quantities
- oversaturatingExceeding maximum capacity
dominating · cornering · monopolizing · overproducing · supply · demand · surplus · excess · overcrowding · competition
vivid
Intensely clear and bright
rich · deep · brilliant · striking · luminous · chromatic · pigmented · hue · tint · shade
- color changedyeing, tinting, fading, bleaching, darkening
- mixingmix, stir, blend, shake, combine
- water actionswatering, soaking, flooding, spraying, dripping
- overwhelming verbsflooding, drowning, crushing, smothering, swamping
- Too Muchoverflowing, spilling, flooding, stuffing, cramming
- wettingwetting, dampening, moistening, soaking, drenching
saturatingdrying
Moisture removal process
dehydrating · desiccating · parching · draining · wicking
saturatingwithdrawing
Removing or pulling away
vacating · limiting · restricting · underselling · minimizing
- saturation pointMaximum capacity reached
- color saturationIntensity of a hue
- market saturationMaximum product penetration reached
- media saturationExcessive information coverage
- oxygen saturationBlood's carried gas level
- saturation bombingBlanket aerial bombardment