Synonyms for satiate
- verb
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Satisfy
satisfy, glut, over-indulge, gorge, surfeit, over-eat, binge, stuff, cloy, pall, overfeed, engorge, overgorge, gormandize, gormandise UK, gourmandise UK, ingurgitate, englut, pig out slang
Adjective
Definitions
- v. 1
To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
- v. 2
To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
- adj. 1
Filled to satisfaction or to excess; satiated, satisfied.
Related words
- Word family
- satiated
Forms
- Past participle
- satiated
e.g. satiated → satisfied, glutted, over-indulged, gorged…
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To sate or satiate is to gratify desire so fully as for a time to extinguish it.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- satisfy The earth can satisfy our needs but not our greed.
- binge I think there are many who binge eat from stress.
- surfeit A surfeit of alternatives leads to a bad choice.
- suffice Suffice it to say that, after all, this won't do.
- gratify She took the job only to gratify her husband.
By length
- 4 letters
- full1, fill1, pall1, glut1, sate1, cloy1
- 5 letters
- stuff1, binge1, gorge1, jaded2, sated2
- 6 letters
- englut
- 7 letters
- satisfy3, suffice2, replete2, gratify3, surfeit2, engorge
- 8 letters
- overfill3, overfeed3
- 9 letters
- overgorge
- 10 letters
- gormandize, gormandise
- 11 letters
- gourmandise, ingurgitate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (jaded2 = 2 syllables).