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 also to learn that in many instances country physicians, remote from the resources of great cities, have been able to make it available.
From Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria by John K. Mitchell
Here he soon after erected a tasteful dwelling, where he has since resided, and where in the leisure snatched from professional avocations he has gratified his taste for horticultural and agricultural pursuits.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
M. de Châteaubriand has gratified himself by inserting in his Memoirs the testimonies of admiration and sympathy proffered to him at that time by M. Benjamin Constant, General Sebastiani, M. Étienne, and other heads of the liberal section.
From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole
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
