| 单词 | sate |
| 释义 | sate (once / 1490 pages) v Sometimes you're so hungry you feel like you could eat a ten-course meal. Other times it takes just a small salad to sate your appetite, or to satisfy your hunger. The verb sate comes from the Old English sadian, “to satiate,” and can be applied to any situation regarding the satisfaction of a need or an appetite. If you have been craving something sweet, your craving might be sated by a bag of jellybeans. However, if it seems like you can never get enough jellybeans, your appetite for sweets might be described as insatiable, a word used to describe a person or entity whose appetites — literally or figuratively — are impossible to satisfy. WORD FAMILYsate: sated, sates, sating+/sated: unsated/unsated: unsatedly USAGE EXAMPLESThe patties vanish before I know what happened, and I am happily sated. Washington Times(Nov 27, 2016) Seven appearances in the National Invitation Tournament have hardly sated a Wildcats fan base annually accustomed to scheduling other plans on Selection Sunday. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) Many Sunday mornings, I would collapse on the sofa and surf for something bloody enough to sate my craving. The New Yorker(Nov 22, 2016) v fill to satisfaction I am sated Syn|Hypo|Hyper fill, replete, satiate cloy, pall cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly |
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