Also means
to overwhelm (a system or person)
Usage Note
Saturer is used both literally (a sponge saturated with water) and figuratively (a network, a person's attention, or a market). The figurative sense je sature ('I'm fed up / maxed out') is very common in everyday spoken French. The related adjective saturé describes anything pushed to capacity.
Examples
"Le réseau est saturé en ce moment."
Natural Translation
The network is saturated right now.
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