Crossword clues for satiated
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.
Wiktionary
Pleasantly satisfied or full, as with food. v
(en-past of: satiate)
WordNet
Usage examples of "satiated".
Sometimes he had also lain sleepless at her side, envying her sleep, feeling mocked by her satiated, contented breathing.
With her lovely body, with those breasts and those white, strong, healthy arms and legs, she would still tempt him often and embrace him and derive pleasure from him and then rest and sleep deeply, satiated, without pain, without dread, without foreboding, beautiful and torpid and stupid as a healthy, sleeping animal.
After eating, tired and satiated, they set out gaily for the woods, lay down in grass and moss.
The fire between them had been satiated for now, yet the flame burned on.
His whole life was a vacation, if he became satiated or bored, he simply moved on.
When he was satiated, shooting Barbie may have been no more upsetting to him than swerving off the road to run over an animal.
Pain welled up from under the satiated contentment, like a little rift of lava finding the surface of the earth.
He it was who instigated the massacres of September, the atrocities of Nantes, the horrors of Thermidor, the sacrileges, the noyades: all with the view of causing every section of the National Assembly to vie with the other in excesses and in cruelty, until the makers of the Revolution, satiated with their own lust, turned on one another, and Sardanapalus-like buried themselves and their orgies in the vast hecatomb of a self-consumed anarchy.
Armand over a pair of large bone-rimmed spectacles, with the air of an old hawk that sees a helpless bird and yet is too satiated to eat.
It is needless to repeat the accounts transmitted concerning the barbarity of this massacre: the rage of the populace, excited by so many injuries, sanctioned by authority, and stimulated by example, distinguished not between innocence and guilt, spared neither sex nor age, and was not satiated without the tortures as well as death of the unhappy victims.
She desired, that after her enemies should be satiated with her innocent blood, her body, which it was determined should never enjoy rest while her soul was united to it, might be consigned to her servants, and be conveyed by them into France, there to repose in a Catholic land, with the sacred relics of her mother.
But Italy not united in any single government, and perhaps satiated with that literary glory which it has possessed both in ancient and modern times, has too much neglected the renown which it has acquired by giving birth to so great a man.
Tristan was feeling boneless with satiated exhaustion by the time he finally groped around the floor and found the plug for the telephone.
In solving social questions they put on astonishingly well-fed airs: satiated aristocrats.
They would feed for a while and then, when satiated, would float off again into the night.