satiate
Americanverb
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to fill or supply beyond capacity or desire, often arousing weariness
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to supply to satisfaction or capacity
Other Word Forms
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Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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satiatesimple
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satiatessimple
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have satiatedperfect
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has satiatedperfect
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am satiatingprogressive
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are satiatingprogressive
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is satiatingprogressive
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have been satiatingperfect progressive
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has been satiatingperfect progressive
Past
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satiatedsimple
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had satiatedperfect
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was satiatingprogressive
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were satiatingprogressive
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had been satiatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of satiate
1400–50; late Middle English (adj.) < Latin satiātus (past participle of satiāre to satisfy), equivalent to sati- enough (akin to sad ) + -ātus -ate 1
Explanation
If you just can't get enough popcorn, even the jumbo tub at the movie theater may not be enough to satiate, or satisfy, your desire. Satiate is often used in situations in which a thirst, craving, or need is satisfied. However, when satiate is used to describe eating, it can take on a more negative, or even disgusted, tone. If you comment that the diners at the world's largest all-you-can eat buffet were satiated, you might not mean that they were merely satisfied. You could be implying that they've been gluttons, and that they are now overstuffed with fried chicken wings and mac and cheese.
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Example Sentences
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It's unclear if the releases of the UFO files have done much to satiate the curiosity of legions of UFO researchers, official and otherwise.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
But “we make it very challenging to build enough homes to satiate the demand,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Chances are, within walking distance, there will be something to satiate you for the time being, even if you’re getting it from a machine.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2025
"The Qantas board was too slow to read the room, and failed to satiate investor concerns despite the departure of the company's CEO, three directors, and Mr Goyder's belated decision to vacate his chairmanship".
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2023
Days became weeks, until at last they ran out of food and water and were in barren lands where no amount of foraging might satiate their appetites.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
The "iconic, one-dish, standalone comfort meal" is one that both fulfills and satiates, emotionally and gustatorily, in a way that not many other foods do on the larger cultural scale.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024
Bentinho’s online presence satiates this hunger for tens of thousands of seekers online.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2020
There’s something about watching humans struggle in the unforgiving, mysterious and undiscovered realms of the universe that satiates a particular craving.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018
Hoping to keep the masses appeased, however, Lisa opts instead to refer to the tax as a “temporary refund adjustment,” a turn of phrase that satiates the gawking rabble.
From Forbes ● Aug. 21, 2014
Yet the infatuation preserves and satiates me in an indescribable way.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
These are some of the places around Los Angeles that still keep his inner comics-nerd satiated and musical curiosity fed — no matter what bleak news is blowing up his phone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
The final product is the literary equivalent of a multicourse meal in a German restaurant—you’re left satiated, but not entirely satisfied, and may feel some indigestion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
She told her former Radio 1 colleague she decided to leave the station partly because she felt "completely satiated" by the job and didn't want it to become "a chore".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
It means satisfied and satiated and like all is right with the world.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
Frightful took the food from him until she was satiated.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
"The dark chocolate scent serves as a learned cue for a rich, bitter, and highly satiating food, which essentially tricks the system into an anticipatory state of fullness," said Nashrudin Naharudin.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Cal-Maine, for its part, is “seeing rising demand for complete, high-quality proteins—including from consumers on GLP-1 medications who are gravitating toward protein-dense, satiating foods,” says Miller.
From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025
Rumors of Garvey’s entry into this Senate race—his last, best chance at satiating a bucket-list item—were first reported in June, with an announcement expected weeks later.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024
Either option protects fingers from getting too sticky while eating — form and edible, satiating function.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Such epithets as ‘mollis,’ ‘lentus,’ ‘tener’ are of frequent recurrence, yet the impression left by their use is not one of weakness, or of a satiating luxury of sentiment.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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