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insatiate

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in·sa·ti·ate  (n-ssh-t)
adj.
Insatiable.
[Latin nsatitus : in-, not; see in-1 + satitus, past participle of satire, to satisfy; see satiate.]
in·sati·ate·ly adv.
in·sati·ate·ness n.
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Adj.1.insatiateinsatiate - impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable"
insatiable, unsatiable
satiate, satiated - supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction


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Worms of the riper grave unhid By any kindly coffin lid, Obscene and shameless to the light, Seethe in insatiate appetite, Through putrid offal; while above The hissing blow-fly seeks his love, Whose offspring, supping where they supt, Consume corruption twice corrupt.
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slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
She dips her rim, She sinks, she founders in the mist; and still The stream flows on, and to the insatiate sea Hurries her white-wave flocks innumerable In never-ending tale.
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