Sate
[seɪt] or [set]
Definition
(v. t.) To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.
(-) imp. of Sit.
(-) of Sit
Typist: Rachel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Satiate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Satiate, glut, surfeit
ANT:Stint, starve
Checker: Micawber
Definition
pa.t. of sit.
v.t. to satisfy or give enough: to glut.—adj. Sate′less insatiable.
Checker: Roberta
Examples
- But when she got into her own, she locked the door, and sate down to cry unwonted tears. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When the spinster took her drive, the faithful Mrs. Bute sate beside her in the carriage. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So Rawdon sate down, and wrote off, Brighton, Thursday, and My dear Aunt, with great rapidity: but there the gallant officer's imagination failed him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She sate down at the piano which Dobbin had bought for her, and sang over all her father's favourite old songs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ay, but, said Waldemar, your sire Henry sate more firm in his seat than your Grace can. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Her son sate by the table, his arms thrown half across it, his head bent face downwards. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- All the next day they sate together--they three. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Muhammad's ambition was not sated by the capture of Constantinople. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Of the two leading an?sthetics, ether is more generally used in the United Sates and chloroform in Europe. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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