Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To satisfy (an appetite or desire) fully.
- transitive v. To satisfy to excess.
- adj. Filled to satisfaction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
- v. To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
- adj. Filled to satisfaction or to excess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.
- transitive v. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate.
- transitive v. To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
- transitive v. To saturate.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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 WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction
- v. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- v. fill to satisfaction
Etymologies
Examples
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When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.
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So Peta instead killed hundreds of lobsters in the traditional inhumane manner to satiate the people they'd invited.
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They make you feel fuller and also satiate you psychologically.
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Well, some of our number were a bit intimidated by the high falutin 'menu, and did not order nearly enough to satiate the machine.
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Did I buy some food from Air Asia to satiate my intense hunger?
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Fourteen writers/artists gathered to drink it all in and satiate their thirst for the experience.
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Create the experience and build the anticipation over time, satiate the crowd, and then come back when the market is primed again.
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Nuclear energy is increasingly becoming the favored alternative, one that experts say could save more valuable crude for export and help satiate local demand for power and water.
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She had lived a promiscuous life, been with many men, but his words were enough to satiate her hunger.
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Chefs around the world have adopted not only his dazzling, delirious inventions but his ethos: to bring science and cooking into closer relationship; to use food not only to please and satiate but to amaze and provoke; above all, to constantly reinvent.
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