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sate

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sate 1  (st)
tr.v. sat·ed, sat·ing, sates
1. To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
2. To satisfy to excess.
[Probably alteration of Middle English saden, from Old English sadian; see s- in Indo-European roots.]
sate 2  (st, st)
v. Archaic
A past tense of sit.
sate
Verb
[sating, sated] to satisfy (a desire or appetite) fully [Old English sadian]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.sate - fill to satisfaction; "I am sated"
replete, satiate, fill
ingest, consume, have, take in, take - serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee"
cloy, pall - cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite"
sate
verb satisfy, satiate, slake, indulge to the full


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Here sate he with his love - his dark eye bent With eagle gaze along the firmament: Now turn'd it upon her - but ever then It trembled to the orb of EARTH again.
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For Satan, with sly preface to return, Had left him vacant, and with speed was gone Up to the middle region of thick air, Where all his Potentates in council sate.
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As soon as we had packed up our wardrobe and valuables, we left Macdonald Hall, and after having walked about a mile and a half we sate down by the side of a clear limpid stream to refresh our exhausted limbs.
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