# sate

Pronunciation: say "SAYT" /seɪt/

## Verb

1. To satisfy an appetite or desire, or the person who feels it, so fully that they are filled up.
   - Simple: To give someone all they want of something, like food, until they feel full.
   - _No amount of praise seemed to sate her appetite for attention._
   - _A huge buffet sated even the hungriest hikers after the climb._

## Noun

2. Satay, a dish of small pieces of seasoned meat grilled on skewers.
   - Simple: Another spelling of satay, which is pieces of meat cooked on small sticks.
   - _The stall grilled sate over glowing coals and sold it ten skewers at a time._
   - _Her cookbook includes a recipe for beef sate marinated in lemongrass and garlic._

## Verb

3. Past tense of sit. An old, poetic form; today the form is sat. *(dated)* — simple past of sit
   - Simple: Past tense of sit. An old form of "sat," found in older books and poems.
4. Past participle of sit. An old, poetic form; today the form is sat. *(dated)* — past participle of sit
   - Simple: Past participle of sit. An old form used after "have" or "had," where we now say "sat."

## Origin

**Meaning 1** — An alteration, influenced by words such as satiate and satisfy, of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden and Old English sadian (“to satisfy, fill”). It goes back through Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”) to Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate”), and is related to Middle High German saten, Icelandic seðja and English sad.
**Meanings 3–4** — From Middle English sate, satte, from Old English sæt, the first and third person singular past tense of sittan (“to sit”).
**Meaning 2** — From Malay sate (“satay”).

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