SATIATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does satiate mean?
• SATIATE (adjective)
The adjective SATIATE has 1 sense:
1. supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction
Familiarity information: SATIATE used as an adjective is very rare.
• SATIATE (verb)
The verb SATIATE has 2 senses:
1. fill to satisfaction
2. overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Familiarity information: SATIATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SATIATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction
Synonyms:
satiate; satiated
Similar:
jaded (dulled by surfeit)
gorged; sated; surfeited (fed beyond capacity or desire)
satiable; satisfiable (capable of being sated)
Antonym:
insatiate (impossible to satisfy)
• SATIATE (verb)
Meaning:
Fill to satisfaction
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
replete; sate; satiate; fill
Context example:
I am sated
Hypernyms (to "satiate" is one way to...):
consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "satiate"):
cloy; pall (cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
binge; scarf out; pig out; overindulge; overgorge; overeat; ingurgitate; gourmandize; gormandize; gormandise; gorge; glut; engorge; englut; satiate; stuff
Context examples:
She stuffed herself at the dinner / The kids binged on icecream
Hypernyms (to "satiate" is one way to...):
eat (eat a meal; take a meal)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
