Sate

Quick meaning: Sate is a verb meaning (transitive) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. simple past of sit
2. past participle of sit

Example Sentences

At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• sates
• sating
• sated

Synonyms for sate

Depending on context, synonyms include satiate, fill up, replete, fill.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include satiate, replete, fill, glut, overfill, surfeit.

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