What does saturate mean?
Word: Saturate
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Saturate means to fill something with liquid until it can hold no more. It can also mean to fill a place so full of something that no more will fit.
How do you spell saturate?
Syllables: sat - u - rate
Tricky part: The middle sounds like ch, so pupils write sachurate. The letter there is a plain t.
Watch out for: sachurate, satchurate, satchrate
Memory tip: Nature can saturate the ground with rain. Nature has the same hidden ch sound, and it too is written with a t.
Saturate in a sentence
Example 1: Heavy showers can saturate a cricket pitch in under an hour.
Example 2: Pour the syrup slowly so that it can saturate the sponge cake.
Example 3: Sellers saturate the market with mangoes every May.
Fun Fact
Chemists use the word too. Stir salt into water until no more will dissolve and you have a saturated solution; any extra salt just sinks to the bottom.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is misspelt. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. evaporate 2. saturrate 3. condense 4. irrigate
a) to turn from a liquid into a gas
b) to bring water to farmland through channels
c) to turn from a gas into a liquid
d) to make something wet right through
Show answer
d) to make something wet right through. A single r follows the u in the second word; the three other science words are correct.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word saturate as used in the sentence:
The night's heavy rain will saturate the washing left out on the terrace.
a) drench
b) flood
c) soak
d) dry
Show answer
d) dry. Soak, drench and flood all mean nearly the same as the word in the sentence.
Mingle-Mangle
The sentence contains a jumbled word. Choose the word it hides:
The farmer waited for steady rain to ttasaure the cracked soil of his field.
a) situate
b) separate
c) saturate
d) sustain
Show answer
c) saturate. The letters hold no p, i or n, so three choices fall away at once.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
satur_t_
a) a, i
b) a, e
c) e, e
d) i, e
Show answer
b) a, e. It closes as calculate and many other verbs do.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. After the monsoon, the playing field is saturated. What would you notice?
a) water standing in pools on the grass
b) dust blowing across the whole field
c) wide cracks running through the hard ground
d) fresh white paint on the boundary lines
Show answer
a) water standing in pools on the grass
2. Adverts saturate the city before the big match. What does this tell you?
a) They are shown only once or twice
b) They are paid for by the city
c) They can be seen almost everywhere
d) They appear only in newspapers
Show answer
c) They can be seen almost everywhere
