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sate

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Verb — To satisfy a desire or appetite fully.

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An alteration, influenced by words such as satiate and satisfy, of the earlier form sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), which came 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 *sadō...

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