désaturer
French, verb/de.sa.ty.ʁe/
désaturer is a French verb meaning “to desaturate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Rendre moins saturé (par exemple, une couleur, une ligne de transports en commun, un disque dur, etc.)”.
What does désaturer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to desaturate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre moins saturé (par exemple, une couleur, une ligne de transports en commun, un disque dur, etc.). 2. Subir une désaturation en dioxygène du sang.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of désaturer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désaturant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désaturé participle past
- désature first-person indicative present
- désatures indicative present second-person
- désaturons first-person indicative plural
- désaturez indicative plural present
- désaturent indicative plural present
- désaturais first-person imperfect indicative
- désaturait imperfect indicative singular
- désaturions first-person imperfect indicative
- désaturiez imperfect indicative plural
- désaturaient imperfect indicative plural
- désaturai first-person historic indicative
- désaturas historic indicative past
- désatura historic indicative past
- désaturâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désaturer?
- /de.sa.ty.ʁe/
- \de.sa.ty.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is désaturer in French?
désaturer appears about once in every 39 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).