satiate
- to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.
- to satisfy to the full; sate.
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profusion, surfeit, swelling, glut, vastness, repletion, broadness, dilation, fill, completion, completeness, wealth, copiousness, entirety, totality, sufficiency, scope, saturation, plenitude, enlargementExamples from the Web for satiation
Historical Examples of satiation
The strained cells, filled to satiation, were given more and more food.
The LeechPhillips Barbee
The promise of satiation, of inevitability, steeped his being in a pleasant lethargy.
CythereaJoseph Hergesheimer
Delicacies of fish and flesh and hitherto unheard-of fruits were served up to me to satiation.
The Portal of DreamsCharles Neville Buck
To work for any other end than satiation, it is necessary that man should feel wants beyond the want created by mere hunger.
Principles of Political Economy, Vol. IIWilliam Roscher
Somewhat nettled she showed displeasure, charged him with the fickleness of satiation.
Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House)James S. De Benneville
satiate
- to fill or supply beyond capacity or desire, often arousing weariness
- to supply to satisfaction or capacity
Word Origin for satiate
Word Origin and History for satiation
1630s, noun of action from satiate (v.).
satiate
mid-15c., from Latin satiatus, past participle of satiare "fill full, satisfy," from satis "enough," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (cf. Gothic saþs "satiated," Old English sæd "satisfied;" see sad). Related: Satiated; satiating.
satiation
(sā′shē-ā′shən)- The state produced by having had a specific need, such as hunger or thirst, fulfilled.