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satiate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Satiate \Sa"ti*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Satiated; p. pr. & vb. n. Satiating.]
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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.
These [smells] rather woo the sense than satiate it.
--Bacon.I may yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood.
--Eikon Basilike. To full beyond natural desire; to gratify to repletion or loathing; to surfeit; to glut.
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To saturate. [Obs.]
--Sir I. Newton.Syn: To satisfy; sate; suffice; cloy; gorge; overfill; surfeit; glut.
Usage: Satiate, Satisfy, Content. These words differ principally in degree. To content is to make contented, even though every desire or appetite is not fully gratified. To satisfy is to appease fully the longings of desire. To satiate is to fill so completely that it is not possible to receive or enjoy more; hence, to overfill; to cause disgust in.
Content with science in the vale of peace.
--Pope.His whole felicity is endless strife; No peace, no satisfaction, crowns his life.
--Beaumont.He may be satiated, but not satisfied.
--Norris.
Satiate \Sa"ti*ate\, a. [L. satiatus, p. p. of satiare to
satisfy, from sat, satis, enough. See Sad, a., and cf.
Sate.]
Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.
``Satiate of applause.''
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin satiatus, past participle of satiare "fill full, satisfy," from satis "enough," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (cognates: Gothic saþs "satiated," Old English sæd "satisfied;" see sad). Related: Satiated; satiating.
Wiktionary
Filled to satisfaction or to excess. v
1 (context transitive English) To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy. 2 (context transitive English) To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
WordNet
v. fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: sate, replete, fill]
overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on icecream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, scarf out]
Wikipedia
Satiate is the first album released by Avail in 1992. Satiate was originally released on the band's own Catheter-Assembly Records, then re-released on Old Glory Records later that year. In 1994, Lookout! Records issued the album on CD with two additional tracks, taken from Avail's 7" release Attempt to Regress.
Usage examples of "satiate".
Distracted with the care, not of acquiring, but of preserving an empire, oppressed with age and infirmities, careless of fame, and satiated with power, all his prospects of life were closed.
An acutely satiric man in an English circle, that does not resort to the fist for a reply to him, may almost satiate the excessive fury roused in his mind by an illogical people of a provocative prosperity, mainly tongueless or of leaden tongue above the pressure of their necessities, as he takes them to be.
After we had satiated in part our amorous ardour we breathed again and sat down.
Had filled his empty head and heart, Enough to satiate foplings twenty, Could make his pantaloon seams start.
Satiated with bliss, though I had not attained to the utmost of enjoyment, which she wisely denied me, after two hours had been devoted to those pastimes which lead to nothing, I resolved to tell her the whole truth and to shew her how I had abused her trust in me, though I feared that her anger would be roused.
Nina, too, had undressed, and seeing that I viewed the orgy coldly she proceeded to satiate her desires by means of Molinari.
Mount Atlas, to satiate their revenge on the polished tyrants, who had injuriously expelled them from the native sovereignty of the land.
Satisfaction settled on her like a heavy blanket, the same way Jebel covered her when he collapsed on her in a heavy, satiated heap.
You are bored with bliss, satiated with sensation, jaded with jejune joys.
With the delight of a remembered dream, As are the noontide plumes of summer winds Satiate with sweet flowers.
The subaquatic primal drumbeats grow louder as the water around me is satiated with red.
In person, the emperor assisted at the execution of his victims, surveyed their agonies, listened to their groans, and indulged, without satiating, his appetite for blood: a plate of noses was accepted as a grateful offering, and his domestics were often scourged or mutilated by the royal hand.
There were a few drunk and satiated Celts passed out in the banquet hall, but none stirred when she emerged.
Helmets were set in the sand to catch all the water possible and they squeezed the fresh water from their jackets until the dogs thirst had been satiated and then drank themselves.
Visigoths, breaking from their confinement, satiated their hunger and revenge by the repeated devastation of the fruitful country, which extends above three hundred miles from the banks of the Danube to the straits of the Hellespont.