sate

Verb

Verb Forms: sated, sating, sates

To satisfy a desire or appetite fully, or even to excess.
fill to satisfaction
- "I am sated"
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
simple past of sit
past participle of sit

Noun

satay

Examples

At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
Only a triple word score could SATE his hunger for points in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

fill, replete, satiate, fill up

Scrabble Score: 4

sate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
sate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

sate: valid Words With Friends Word