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View synonyms for sated

sated

[ sey-tid ]

adjective

  1. fully satisfied:

    After that deep bowl of superb salad, I left sated and content.

  2. overfilled with or overexposed to something to the point of being unable to bear more; glutted, as with food, pleasure, etc.:

    Congratulations for adding flavor to an old debate being forced upon a sated populace.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of sate 1.

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Example Sentences

It’s late, of course, because the national pastime typically moves with all the urgency of a sated sloth on a 100-degree day.

I had spent only three hours in the park and already felt sated.

But for a British public sated with royal pomp back in April, ordinary is quite good enough.

Handsome looking people and rather accessible prices; both left us happily sated.

They make a mean (read: strong) iced Americano and both healthy eaters and indulgers will be sated.

You do become sated quite quickly, and, of course, the potential for overload is there.

When his feeble love is sated, he will hold thee surely then Something lower than his hookah, something less than his cayenne.

Donations of food and clothing kept pouring in until Chicago was fairly sated.

At first the larva does not touch them, being amply sated with the copious meal of the day before.

He was sated with such things, and seldom found it possible to bear more than a line or two of them.

Davies's passion for intricate navigation had to be sated even in these secure and tideless waters.

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