Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To satisfy (an appetite) fully.
- transitive verb To provide (someone) with more than enough; glut.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To fill full; glut; surfeit; satiate.
- Synonyms Surfeit, etc. (see
satisfy ), glut, gorge. - noun An obsolete or archaic preterit of
sit .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.
- imp. of
sit .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated Simple past of
sit . - verb To
satisfy ; fill up. - noun
satay
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fill to satisfaction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said that the sate was the first in the Country to implement inter-linking of rivers to prevent water from flowing into the Bay of Bengal.
Latest Stories editor 2010
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A dish that is on the prominent position of my must-eat list (when I am on vacation) is sate kelapa (or in its local variant known as sate kelopo).
D.C.T.W.Y.C.D.T 2009
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In several hours you can learn about 20 exotic recipes, such as sate lilit (minced-fish-on-lemon-grass sate) or ayam pelalah (shredded chicken with chilies and lime).
Travel Briefs 2007
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Hi, I'm a Malaysian Malay and I help my father sell 'sate' sweetened meat/chicken barbeque with grounded ground nut sweet-spicy sauce.
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Besides, there was also some Indonesian food such as sate ayam, bakmi goreng, lumpia, bakwan, rempeyek, kembang goyang and kerupuk ikan.
Scand News for S.E.A - Scandinavian News Portal for Southeast Asia Bjarne Wildau 2010
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The Countesse had scarce made an ende of her tale, but one came to tell them that the Tables were couered for dinner: the king well fedde with Loue, dined for that time very soberly, and not able to eate but vppon amorous dishes, did caste his lokes inconstantly here and there, and still his eyes threw the last loke vppon that part of the table where the Countesse sate, meaninge thereby to extinguish the boiling flames, which incessantly did burne him, howbeit by thinking to coole them, he further plonged himselfe therein.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Under his watch, Chase had to forego roughly three quarters of a billion dollars in fees after a particularly ugly bribery and corruption case that involved spreading $8 billion around the sate of Alabama.
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Under his watch, Chase had to forego roughly three quarters of a billion dollars in fees after a particularly ugly bribery and corruption case that involved spreading $8 billion around the sate of Alabama.
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The prospect of Champions League football with Tottenham might not be sufficient to sate Modric.
Harry Redknapp mind games keeps Luka Modric on side at Tottenham 2011
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As one recent MedPac study found, “claims of extensive cost shifting imply that hospital costs are largely fixed and that it is hospitals in the worst financial sate that will have the greatest need and incentive to shift costs onto private payers due to low Medicare payment.”
Wonk Room » Insurers Respond To Schumer’s New Public Health Plan Compromise 2009
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