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oversaturate

oversaturate verb: to saturate to excess.

Verb

oversaturate (third-person singular simple present oversaturates, present participle oversaturating, simple past and past participle oversaturated)

  1. To saturate to excess.
    • Sharpening a photograph can oversaturate the colours.

Forms of oversaturate

third-person singular presentoversaturates
present participleoversaturating
past participleoversaturated
pastoversaturated

Origin of oversaturate

From over- + saturate.

Questions about oversaturate

What does oversaturate mean?
Oversaturate means to saturate to excess.
What part of speech is oversaturate?
Oversaturate is a verb.
What is the past tense of oversaturate?
The past tense of oversaturate is oversaturated.

Words near oversaturate in the dictionary

  1. oversated
  2. oversatisfied
  3. oversatisfies
  4. oversatisfy
  5. oversatisfying
  6. oversaturate
  7. oversaturated
  8. oversaturates
  9. oversaturating
  10. oversaturation
  11. oversaturations

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