to sate
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6.2
- verb
- /seɪt/
:
saciar
- Yet I cannot be sated without you.
- sated desire
Just a little juice glass, you know, and we would eat and talk and catch up and until everyone was completely sated.
- Just a little juice glass, you know, and we would eat and talk and catch up and until everyone was completely sated.
Examples
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We left the Gardens sated, happy, and on a sugar high.
Blog text (24) -
And suddenly I was sated.
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I hope that is sufficient to sate your curiosity for now, David.
Blog text (15) -
Its appetite for blood had been sated, and now it was ready for battle
Fiction book (1996) -
Let us hope his hunger has been sated.
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Our appetite was sated.
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Since taking over Gotham, I've created the perfect city, and yet I'm still not sated.
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I skated off the rink and began to undress, exhausted but strangely and pleasantly sated.
Academic text (1999) -
He tried to sate his hunger with a large meal at the restaurant.
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Reading a great book can sate my desire for adventure and excitement.
Synonyms
172
2.0
Make someone happy by meeting their need or wish
68
4.3
To allow yourself to enjoy something pleasant, often more than needed
18
4.6
To make yourself or someone else satisfied with something
11
5.1
To meet a need exactly, especially hunger or thirst
11
4.6
To please someone or make them feel happy
10
1.9
Eat until you cannot eat any more
9
7.1
To make someone feel they have had enough to eat or drink
3
6.6
Have enough of something so you do not want more
3
9.0
To satisfy a need, especially thirst
Have as much of something as you want until you feel satisfied
Antonyms
How Satisfied
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sate comes from the Latin word satis, which means 'enough'. So to sate someone is to give them enough, to fully fill or satisfy a hunger or desire, just like satisfy or satiate.