gratify
verb (used with object)
to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings.
has gratified
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present perfectof gratify (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Judging by the 80 grand Rolin provided towards the cost of the ArcelorMittal Orbit – what London blogger Diamond Geezer has dubbed the "red-knotted coiltrumpet" McIntyre has gratified the mayor in more ways than one.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2010
It has gratified me to find abundant proof that the country was, and is, fully alive to the vital importance of devolution....
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
He has gratified me keenly by laying his fingers on passages which I wrote either from strong feeling or from intimate knowledge, but which I had prepared myself to find passed over by reviewers.'
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by George Willis Cooke
This signal conquest of your eloquence has gratified my pride very much.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
Adeline faintly smiled, but repeated that every hope of that kind was over, but that her utmost wish has gratified in seeing her mother, and receiving her full forgiveness.
From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Amelia Alderson Opie
