gratify
verb (used with object)
to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings.
will gratify
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future tenseof gratify.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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To counteract the grease, you’ll want to home in on the kale-blue cheese slaw or the watermelon-feta-mint salad, a pair of sides that will gratify the palate and settle your conscience.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2022
Credit: Here’s a finding that will gratify monster-crazed children everywhere: Roughly 505 million years ago, giant killer shrimp—ok, shrimplike creatures called anomalocaridids—prowled the ocean gobbling up any soft-bodied prey that wandered across their path.
From Science Magazine ● May 25, 2011
This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
From Time Magazine Archive
This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.'
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, it is a form that will gratify everybody, revenger and revengee equally I should think.
From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth von Arnim
