Other forms: satiated, satiating, satiates
To satiate is to satisfy an appetite completely, or beyond it. Satiate his hunger, satiated at last, satiate the demand.
There is usually too much in it, since satiated means fed past the point of wanting more. It is a relative of satisfy and of sated, all from the Latin for enough.
1verbsatiateTo satisfy an appetite completely, or beyond it.
“After the huge Christmas dinner, everyone was completely satiated and fell asleep on the sofa.”
satiate is a satisfying.
Latin satiare comes from satis, enough; satisfy shares the root.
Latin
satiātus
English, today
satiate
Built from
1440–1450s, in Middle English; Latin satiātus, perfect passive participle of satiō (“to fill full, satiate, satisfy”) (see -ate and -ate), from satis (“sufficient”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA