Satiate

  • 91cloy — verb /klɔɪ/ a) To fill up or choke up; to stop up. b) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to …

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  • 92sadian — 1. 1 wv/t2 to satisfy, satiate; gesadian satiate, fill; 2. wv/i2 to be sated, get wearied; …

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  • 93gorge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gully, ravine, canyon, pass; feast. See interval. v. overeat, gormandize, stuff, bolt, gulp. See gluttony. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. chasm, canyon, abyss, crevasse; see ravine . v. Syn. glut, surfeit,… …

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  • 94asset — [16] Originally, to have assets was simply to have ‘enough’ – as in French assez. The Anglo Norman legal phrase aver asetz signified ‘have enough money to meet one’s debts’, and eventually asetz, later assets, passed from the general meaning… …

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  • 95satisfy — [15] Etymologically, satisfy means ‘make enough’. It comes, via Old French satisfier, from Latin satisfacere ‘satisfy, content’, a compound verb formed from satis ‘enough’ (a relative of English sad, sated, and saturate, and source of English… …

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  • 96saturate — [16] Latin satur meant ‘full’, and in particular ‘full of food, full up’ (it was a relative of satis ‘enough’, source of English satiate and satisfy). From it was formed a verb saturāre ‘fill, glut, surfeit’, whose past participle has given… …

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  • 97insatiable — (adj.) early 15c., insaciable, from O.Fr. insaciable (13c.), or directly from L.L. insatiabilis not to be satisfied, from in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + satiabilis, from satiare (see SATIATE (Cf. satiate)). Related: Insatiably …

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  • 98insatiate — (adj.) mid 15c., insaciate, from L. insatiatus unsatisfied, from in not, opposite of (see IN (Cf. in ) (1)) + satiatus, pp. of satiare (see SATIATE (Cf. satiate)) …

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  • 99sate — to satisfy, surfeit, c.1600, alteration (by influence of L. satiare satiate ) of M.E. saden become satiated, from O.E. sadian to satiate, from W.Gmc. *sathojanan, from the same root as SAD (Cf. sad) (q.v.). Related: Sated; sating …

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  • 100satiable — 1900; see SATIATE (Cf. satiate) + ABLE (Cf. able) …

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