Sate
verb
To fully satisfy a desire or need for something, often by providing more than enough.
The large meal was enough to sate his hunger.
Often appears as...
- sate hunger
- sate appetite
verb
To fully satisfy a desire or need for something, often by providing more than enough.
The large meal was enough to sate his hunger.
Often appears as...
- sate hunger
- sate appetite
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Over Satisfaction
Use 'sate' when something exceeds just enough, particularly in hunger or other desires.
Even after dessert, she indulged in a cheese platter just to sate her cravings.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Sate' can imply excess and potential negative consequences of having more than necessary.
He sated his curiosity by trespassing, which resulted in trouble.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Desires
Use 'sate' for intense needs or desires, not for mild preferences or likes.
Marathon runners need to sate their intense thirst after a race, not just sip some water.
Pro Tip 1/3Over Satisfaction
Use 'sate' when something exceeds just enough, particularly in hunger or other desires.
Even after dessert, she indulged in a cheese platter just to sate her cravings.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Sate' can imply excess and potential negative consequences of having more than necessary.
He sated his curiosity by trespassing, which resulted in trouble.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Desires
Use 'sate' for intense needs or desires, not for mild preferences or likes.
Marathon runners need to sate their intense thirst after a race, not just sip some water.
Pro Tip 1/3Over Satisfaction
Use 'sate' when something exceeds just enough, particularly in hunger or other desires.
Even after dessert, she indulged in a cheese platter just to sate her cravings.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Positive
'Sate' can imply excess and potential negative consequences of having more than necessary.
He sated his curiosity by trespassing, which resulted in trouble.
Pro Tip 3/3Strong Desires
Use 'sate' for intense needs or desires, not for mild preferences or likes.
Marathon runners need to sate their intense thirst after a race, not just sip some water.
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Why Africa must become a...
But how many classics departments do we have in our universities? Because we do not invest in knowledge, people come to Africa now not as a place of intellectual enrichment, but as a place where they sate their thirst for exotica.
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The 5 Musketeers Eat...
equivalent of a suckling pig I suppose so good for the boys they'll be quite happy with that although I don't think it's gonna be enough to sate them I think they might hunt again just now but should keep them a little bit less
Video examples
Why Africa must become a...
But how many classics departments do we have in our universities? Because we do not invest in knowledge, people come to Africa now not as a place of intellectual enrichment, but as a place where they sate their thirst for exotica.
Video examples
The 5 Musketeers Eat...
equivalent of a suckling pig I suppose so good for the boys they'll be quite happy with that although I don't think it's gonna be enough to sate them I think they might hunt again just now but should keep them a little bit less
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Quote examples
John Perry Barlow
American Writer
The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.
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Ashley Judd
American Actress
I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
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Gabrielle Roy
Canadian Author
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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Adela Florence Nicolson
English Poet
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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George Michael
British Musician
My ego is sated.
Quote examples
John Perry Barlow
American Writer
The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.
Quote examples
Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
Quote examples
Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.
Quote examples
Ashley Judd
American Actress
I can't think of anything I want and need that I don't already have but at the same time, I'm not sated.
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Gabrielle Roy
Canadian Author
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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Adela Florence Nicolson
English Poet
Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
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George Michael
British Musician
My ego is sated.
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