sate

Formssates, sating, sated

1. 1
   verbtransitive

   To give someone all they want of something, like food, until they feel full.

   A big bowl of soup will sate your hunger.

   The tour of the old castle sated his curiosity.

   Similarsatiate

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   Another spelling of satay, which is pieces of meat cooked on small sticks.

   We ate chicken sate with peanut sauce at the night market.

   The sate was hot and smoky from the grill.

   Similarsatay

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3. 3
   verbdated

   Past tense of sit. An old form of "sat," found in older books and poems.

   So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.

   1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My LandlordHere, sate is an old form of sat, the past tense of sit.

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