sate en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /seɪt/
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Etymology
Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Doublet of sad.
Meanings
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(transitive) To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC: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.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC: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.
[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| sated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| sade | alternative, dialectal | lexicographic | |
| sates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unsating · unsated · satedness · sater · sated · sateless · unsatable
Relateds
saturate · satisfactory · satiety · satiate
Synonyms
Translations (25)
mi whakanā (To satisfy; fill up) · mi whakaupa (To satisfy; fill up) · es saciar (To satisfy; fill up) · gl encher (To satisfy; fill up) · pt saciar (To satisfy; fill up) · bg задоволявам (To satisfy; fill up) · gl fartar (To satisfy; fill up) · pl sycić (To satisfy; fill up) · fi täyttää (To satisfy; fill up) · pl nasycić (To satisfy; fill up) · ro sătura (To satisfy; fill up) · tr doymak (To satisfy; fill up) · sv mätta (To satisfy; fill up) · fi tyydyttää (To satisfy; fill up) · de sättigen (To satisfy; fill up) · gd sàsaich (To satisfy; fill up) · sv tillfredsställa (To satisfy; fill up) · gl saciar (To satisfy; fill up) · got 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍉𐌸𐌾𐌰𐌽 (To satisfy; fill up) · nb tilfredsstille (To satisfy; fill up) · it saziare (To satisfy; fill up) · ca sadollar (To satisfy; fill up) · ca saciar (To satisfy; fill up) · nb mette (To satisfy; fill up) · bg засищам (To satisfy; fill up)