As verbs the difference between saturate and maturate
is that
saturate is to cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid) while
maturate is to bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
saturate English
Verb
( saturat)
To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
* 1815 , in the Annals of Philosophy , volume 6, page 332:
- Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas,
* Macaulay
- Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
- Rain saturated their clothes.
- After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated .
To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
- One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
Related terms
* sate
* satis
* satisfy
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maturate English
Verb
( maturat)
To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
* Fuller
- A tree may be maturated artificially.
To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess).
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