SATIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does satiate mean? 

• SATIATE (adjective)
  The adjective SATIATE has 1 sense:

1. supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction

  Familiarity information: SATIATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• SATIATE (verb)
  The verb SATIATE has 2 senses:

1. fill to satisfaction

2. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

  Familiarity information: SATIATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SATIATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction

Synonyms:

satiate; satiated

Similar:

jaded (dulled by surfeit)

satiable; satisfiable (capable of being sated)

Antonym:

insatiate (impossible to satisfy)

• SATIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they satiate    ... he / she / it satiates   
Past simple: satiated   
Past participle: satiated   
-ing form: satiating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill to satisfaction

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

fill; replete; sate; satiate

Context example:

I am sated

Hypernyms (to "satiate" is one way to...):

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "satiate"):

cloy; pall (cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

satiation (the act of achieving full gratification)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

binge; englut; engorge; glut; gorge; gormandise; gormandize; gourmandize; ingurgitate; overeat; overgorge; overindulge; pig out; satiate; scarf out; stuff

Context example:

The kids binged on ice cream

Hypernyms (to "satiate" is one way to...):

eat (eat a meal; take a meal)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sometimes he would touch one of us with his hand, and sometimes the other, and so he sat, with his soul too satiated for words, whilst the shadows gathered in the little room and the lights of the inn windows glimmered through the gloom.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

GLP-1 mimetics mimic the activity of GLP-1 and thereby stimulate glucose-dependent secretion of insulin from pancreatic beta cells, suppress glucagon secretion from alpha cells, increase insulin sensitivity and inhibit gastric emptying thereby slowing absorption of nutrients and creating a satiating effect.

(GLP-1 Mimetics, NCI Thesaurus)

This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He had vowed to be with me on my wedding-night, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)