sate
/seɪt/
sate verb: to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. Also the simple past of sit.
Verb
sate (third-person singular simple present sates, present participle sating, simple past and past participle sated)
- To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
- crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
Noun
sate
Also used as
sate is also the simple past of sit.
sate is also the past participle of sit.
Synonyms of sate
Forms of sate
| third-person singular present | sates |
|---|---|
| present participle | sating |
| past participle | sated |
| past | sated |
| alternative form (dialectal) | sade |
Origin of sate
Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Doublet of sad.
From Middle English sate, satte, from Old English sæt, first and third person singular preterite of sittan (“to sit”).
From Malay sate (“satay”).
Words formed from sate
Phrases with sate
Words that rhyme with sate
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- mate
- late
- bate
- create
- date
- relate
- vibrate
- wait
- deflate
- fate
- migrate
- rebate
- rotate
- strait
- supererogate
- translocate
- await
- eight
- freight
- skate
- alternate
- collate
- debate
- inflate
- sedate
- update
- compensate
- delate
- dilate
- fixate
- grate
- Haight
- hate
- implicate
- innate
- intercalate
- locate
- mandate
- negate
- overweight
- pinnate
- quadrate
- tate
- vacate
- aerate
- calibrate
- castrate
- conflate
Questions about sate
- What does sate mean?
- Sate means to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
- What part of speech is sate?
- Sate can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce sate?
- Sate is pronounced /seɪt/.
- What is the past tense of sate?
- The past tense of sate is sated.
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