Past tense of saturate
regular verb
The past tense of saturate is saturated. The past participle is also saturated.
Forms of saturate
| Base form (V1) | saturate /ˈsatjʊɹeɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | saturated |
| Past participle (V3) | saturated |
| Present participle | saturating |
| Third person singular | saturates |
Saturated in a sentence
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
- I crystallized the copper sulfate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.From the entry crystallize
- The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land.From the entry account for
- I found it necessary while doing guard to cover myself with my India-rubber poncho, to prevent my clothes from becoming saturated with water.From the entry poncho
Meaning of saturate
- verb To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
- verb To fill thoroughly or to excess.
- verb To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
Questions about the past tense of saturate
- What is the past tense of saturate?
- The past tense of saturate is saturated.
- What is the past participle of saturate?
- The past participle of saturate is saturated.
- Is saturate a regular or irregular verb?
- Saturate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: saturate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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