MATURATE | • maturate v. (Transitive) To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. • maturate v. (Medicine, transitive) To promote the perfect suppuration of (an abscess). • maturate v. (Medicine, intransitive) To undergo perfect suppuration. |
OBTURATE | • obturate v. To block up or obstruct. • OBTURATE v. to stop up. |
SATURATE | • saturate v. To cause to become completely impregnated, or soaked (especially with a liquid). • saturate v. (Figurative) To fill to excess. • saturate v. To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold. |
MICTURATE | • micturate v. (Intransitive, physiology, formal) To urinate. • MICTURATE v. to urinate. |
TRITURATE | • triturate v. To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize. • triturate v. To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring. • triturate v. To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle. |
DESATURATE | • desaturate v. (Transitive) To cause to become less saturated or unsaturated. • desaturate v. (Intransitive) To become less saturated or unsaturated. • DESATURATE v. to cause to become unsaturated, to make less saturated. |
UNSATURATE | • unsaturate n. (Organic chemistry) Any unsaturated compound, but especially an unsaturated hydrocarbon in the oil refining industry. • UNSATURATE n. an unsaturated chemical compound. |
ACCULTURATE | • acculturate v. (Transitive) To change the culture of (a person) by the influence of another culture, especially a more… • acculturate v. (Transitive) To cause (a person) to acquire the culture of society, starting at birth. • acculturate v. (Intransitive) To be changed by acculturation. |
BARBITURATE | • barbiturate n. (Organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of barbituric acid. • barbiturate n. (Pharmacology) Any of derivatives of barbituric acid that act as depressants of the central nervous… • BARBITURATE n. a sleeping drug. |
ENCULTURATE | • enculturate v. (Transitive) To subject to enculturation. • ENCULTURATE v. to culture. |
CONTRITURATE | • CONTRITURATE v. to pulverize. |
OVERSATURATE | • oversaturate v. To saturate to excess. • OVERSATURATE v. to saturate to excess. |
SUPERSATURATE | • supersaturate v. To cause a solution to have more solute dissolved in it than it can stably contain at current conditions. • SUPERSATURATE v. to add to (a solution) beyond saturation. |
MONOUNSATURATE | • monounsaturate n. A monounsaturated oil, or fatty acid. • mono-unsaturate n. Alternative spelling of monounsaturate. • MONOUNSATURATE n. a monounsaturated compound. |
NONBARBITURATE | • nonbarbiturate n. A substance that is not a barbiturate. • NONBARBITURATE n. something that is not barbiturate. |
POLYUNSATURATE | • polyunsaturate n. Any polyunsaturated fat or fatty acid. • polyunsaturate adj. Polyunsaturated. • POLYUNSATURATE n. a fat that is polyunsaturated. |
THIOBARBITURATE | • thiobarbiturate n. (Medicine) Any compound obtained from a barbiturate by the formal substitution of an oxygen atom by one of sulfur. • THIOBARBITURATE n. a salt of thiobarbituric acid similar in effect to a barbiturate. |