| 单词 | satiate |
| 释义 | satiate I. sa·tiate < that satiate moment after dinner — D.L.Morgan > II. sa·ti·ate 1. a. < in reviewing a novel, you should try to … titillate rather than satiate the reader's interest — Raymond Walters b.1912 > b. 2. obsolete Synonyms: < a vast sameness of sweetness, satiating but never satisfying — Winifred Bambrick > < our generation is so overwhelmed by information … that curiosity becomes sated, discrimination dulled — W.R.Parker > surfeit implies feeding, supplying, or indulging to excess, with consequent revulsion or disgust < other poems have other crimes, and long before the reader has finished with them he is surfeited — J.G.Southworth > cloy stresses the aversion resulting from an excess of normally gratifying experience < all breathing human passion far above, that leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd — John Keats > pall emphasizes loss of power to attract and a consequent waning of interest < the vision palled, and Wells, the lifelong Utopian, despaired of man — Karl Meyer > glut suggests a full supply or sometimes oversupply not necessarily resulting in extinction of desire; often (except in the economic sense of a glutted market) it suggests a constantly renewed greed, limited only by physical necessity < glutted, but not sated with blood — Jane Porter > gorge suggests a greed, whether for material or spiritual goods, that is intensified by gratification and is only abated though not necessarily satisfied when the bursting point is reached < the more she heard, the more she wanted to know; there was no gorging her to satiety — Samuel Butler †1902 > where food is the object, gorge may suggest prolonged and unrestrained stuffing < fell upon eggs and bacon and gorged till he could gorge no more — Rudyard Kipling > |
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