Sate

Verb

 * 1) To satisfy; fill up
 * At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
 * 1) *1898,, Chapter 4
 * 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.

Related terms

 * satiate
 * satisfactory
 * saturate
 * surfeit

Verb
sate



Noun

 * 1) satay

Thesaurus
allay, appease, assuage, cloy, cram, engorge, feast, feed, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, gratify, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, quench, regale, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit

Etymology 1
From Early Modern English undefined:, variant of sade:, from saden:, from  sadian: from  from  from. Akin to sæd:,  sad:,  sad:,  sat: ( satt:),  saðr:,  𐍃𐌰𐌸𐍃:,  𐍃𐍉𐌸𐌰:. More at.

Etymology 2
From, from sæt:, first and third person singular preterite of sittan:.

Etymology 3
From satay:, sate:.

Verb

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Anagrams

 * AEST, East, east, eats, etas, SEAT, seat, seta, tase, teas

Noun

 * 1) satay

Derived terms

 * Dutch: sateh, saté