saturate
sa chuh rayt
- v cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
- v infuse or fill completely
- But so far, Weis' major crime-fighting initiative has been to saturate crime-tossed neighborhoods, like South Austin on Chicago's West Side, with police officers.
- On the basis of E63 readings, artillery fire has been called in and flights of B-52s have been dispatched to saturate the suspicious area with bombs.
- More recently, another model has emerged: each year, often during school breaks, about a million short-term volunteer missionaries in gangs of about 15 briefly saturate the Third .