satiate
verb (used with object)
to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
had satiated
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past perfectof satiate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The leech was usually allowed to drop off of its own accord when it had satiated itself, which took about an hour.
From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Toby Appel
The Dreamer looked at them, one after the other, and all the faces had satiated, blasé expressions which disturbed and disquieted him.
From Ten Tales by Walter Learned
He was an orphan, coming into a big fortune with his majority, and he had satiated an old desire to travel in lands not visited by all the world.
From Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon
And ere Frank returned to Germany he had satiated his soul with all the wonders of that wondrous land.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Charles Kingsley
Rome and Italy had satiated my curious appetite, and I was now ready to return to the peaceful retreat of my family and books.
From Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon
