oversaturate

verb

over·sat·u·rate ˌō-vər-ˈsa-chə-ˌrāt

oversaturated; oversaturating

transitive verb

: to saturate to an excessive degree

… since the company went public, it's been opening so many stores that it's at risk of oversaturating its own market …—

Angela Mulholland

… the Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge … slipped several feet in February when storms oversaturated the underlying soil.—

Kurtis Alexander

… settings that don't oversaturate colors or look too dim.—

Dieter Bohn

also : supersaturate

oversaturated the water with salt

oversaturated adjective

… delivers impressive image quality. Colors are bright and realistic without being oversaturated. —

Luisa Simone

Perhaps you remember a chemistry experiment from high school: You dissolve a salt in hot water, let the solution cool down, put a small crystal in the now oversaturated solution—then all of a sudden crystals form. —

Bert J. M. de Vries

oversaturation

ˌō-vər-ˌsa-chə-ˈrā-shən

adjective

oversaturation of the market with too many action films

… colors usually struck a nice balance between accurate and pleasant oversaturation. —

Mitt Jones

Examples of oversaturate in a Sentence

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Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have a decades-long chokehold on a market that is arguably oversaturated already. —

WIRED, 20 Mar. 2023 Sources say Kurtzman, whose Secret Hideout captains the Trek franchise under a nine-figure overall deal with producers CBS Studios, began making plans to convert Section 31 into a tentpole feature film for the platform last summer as insiders were nervous about oversaturating the iconic property. —

Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2023 The format becomes oversaturated, as everyone is doing a slightly different version of the same thing. —

Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2023 Apprehensiveness leads us to oversaturate ourselves with excess information and to overanalyze every single available option. —

Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021 The 1080p-pixel resolution is sharp, though colors can look slightly oversaturated. —

WIRED, 25 Mar. 2023 In an effort to avoid oversaturating the Paro community, people aren’t brought into the talent pool until there is a specific demand for their expertise. —

Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023 We’re oversaturated with affordable housing. —

Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 16 Feb. 2023 Water should not stand on or oversaturate the soil. —

oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2022