Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To satisfy (an appetite, for example) fully.
- transitive verb To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
- adjective Filled to satisfaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To satisfy; feed or nourish to the full; sate.
- To fill beyond natural desire; surfeit; fill to repletion.
- To saturate. See
saturate . - Synonyms Surfeit, etc. (see
satisfy ); suffice overfill, glut, gorge, cloy. - To satisfy need or desire.
- Filled to satiety; glutted; satiated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by
with orof . - transitive verb To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate.
- transitive verb To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
- transitive verb obsolete To saturate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
fill tosatisfaction ; tosatisfy . - verb transitive To
satisfy toexcess . To fill tosatiety . - adjective Filled to satisfaction or to excess.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- verb fill to satisfaction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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