saturate

verb

1 heavy autumn rain saturated the ground:

soak, drench, waterlog, wet through, wet;

souse, steep, douse, impregnate;

technical ret;

Scottish, & Northern English drouk;

archaic sop.

▷antonyms dry out.

2 the air was saturated with the stench of joss sticks:

permeate, impregnate, suffuse, imbue, pervade, steep, charge, infuse, inform, fill, spread throughout.

3 Japan's electronics industry began to saturate the world markets:

flood, glut, swamp, oversupply, overfill, overload.

▷antonyms starve.