• IPA: /seɪt/

sate (sates, present participle sating; past and past participle sated)

1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.

   Synonyms: satiate, fill up

   At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 12, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4

     And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.

• satiate
• satisfactory
• saturate
• surfeit

• German: sättigen
• Portuguese: saciar
• Spanish: saciar

1. (dated, poetic) simple past tense of sit

sate

1. satay