satiate (verb)

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• satiate — verb here, this stew should satiate you Syn: fill, satisfy, sate; slake, quench; gorge, stuff, surfeit, glut, cloy, sicken, nauseate …   Thesaurus of popular words

• satiate — verb (transitive usually passive) literary to satisfy a desire or need for something such as food or sex, especially so that you feel you have had too much satiated adjective: Zeke lay on the couch, satiated after his meal. satiety noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• satiate — verb (t) /ˈseɪʃieɪt/ (say saysheeayt) (satiated, satiating) 1. to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit; cloy. 2. to satisfy to the full. –adjective /ˈseɪʃiət/ (say saysheeuht), / ieɪt/ (say eeayt) 3. Obsolete… …  

• satiate — UK [ˈseɪʃɪeɪt] / US [ˈseɪʃɪˌeɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms satiate : present tense I/you/we/they satiate he/she/it satiates present participle satiating past tense satiated past participle satiated literary to satisfy a need or desire… …   English dictionary

• satiate — I. adjective Date: 15th century filled to satiety II. transitive verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Latin satiatus, past participle of satiare, from satis enough more at sad Date: 15th century to satisfy (as a need or desire) fully or to excess •… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• satiate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. sate, satisfy; cloy, jade, make blasé; quench, slake, pall; glut, gorge, surfeit, bore; spoil. See sufficiency. Ant., leave wanting, disappoint. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, fill …   English dictionary for students

• satiate — [[t]se͟ɪʃieɪt[/t]] satiates, satiating, satiated VERB If something such as food or pleasure satiates you, you have all that you need or all that you want of it, often so much that you become tired of it. [FORMAL] [V n] There is usually enough… …   English dictionary

• satiate — 1. verb a) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy. Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge. b) To satisfy to excess. 2 …   Wiktionary

• satiate — sa|ti|ate [ seıʃi,eıt ] verb transitive LITERARY to satisfy a need or DESIRE completely, sometimes in a way that makes you feel as though you have had too much: Nothing seems to satiate people s need for gossip. ╾ sa|ti|a|tion [ ,seıʃi eıʃn ]… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• satiate — [16] Like satisfy, satiate comes from Latin satis ‘enough’, a descendant of the same Indo European base that produced English sad and sated. Satis formed the basis of a verb satiāre ‘give enough or too much’, which was originally taken over by… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• satiate — [16] Like satisfy, satiate comes from Latin satis ‘enough’, a descendant of the same Indo European base that produced English sad and sated. Satis formed the basis of a verb satiāre ‘give enough or too much’, which was originally taken over by… …   Word origins