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"form": "most saturate",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "saturate (comparative more saturate, superlative most saturate)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1785, William Cowper, “The Task”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 23:",
"text": "The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Saturated; wet."
],
"links": [
[
"wet",
"wet"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"en:Entomology"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "saturate green",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Very intense."
],
"links": [
[
"entomology",
"entomology"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(entomology) Very intense."
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"entomology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈsæt͡ʃəˌɹeɪt/"
},
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}
],
"word": "saturate"
}
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