Meaning

(transitive) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
2. simple past of sit
3. past participle of sit
4. satay

Example Sentences

At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.

crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities

Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

And all the day the girl sate trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.

Word Forms

• sates
• sating
• sated
• sade

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Use sate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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