Satiate
['seɪʃɪeɪt] or ['seʃɪet]
Definition
(verb.) fill to satisfaction; 'I am sated'.
(adj.) supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction .
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.
(v. t.) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense.
(v. t.) To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
(v. t.) To saturate.
Editor: Maynard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Sate, glut, gorge, surfeit, cloy, pall, overfeed.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gorge, cloy, satisfy_fully,[See SATIRICAL]
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Definition
v.t. to satisfy or give enough: to gratify fully: to glut.—adj. glutted.—n. Sātiabil′ity.—adj. Sā′tiable that may be satiated.—ns. Sātiā′tion; Sātī′ety state of being satiated: surfeit.
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Examples
- If he is starving, or if he is satiated with music for the time being, he will naturally judge food to have the greater worth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The implacable animosity of Heyling, so far from being satiated by the success of his persecution, increased a hundredfold with the ruin he inflicted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- If thou wert yet alive, and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- At the general shop, at the butcher's and at the public-house, they evinced an inquiring spirit never to be satiated. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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