sated

1. 1
   adjective

   Completely satisfied, having had so much of something that one's appetite for it is fully met.

   By the end of the festival, even the most devoted fans seemed sated with music.

   Her curiosity sated, she closed the book and turned out the light.

   Similarsatiated, satisfied, glutted

   Oppositeunsatisfied

   Note

   Here the appetite can be for anything (music, praise, knowledge, a person), not only food. The adjective is simply sate plus -ed, and it usually takes with (sated with praise) or follows its noun in a loose clause (their curiosity sated, they left). Shakespeare's Othello shows its edge: when she is sated with him, she will find the error of her choice. The plainer case, an empty stomach filled, is the bodily meaning.

2. 2
   verb

   Past tense of sate.

   The documentary sated my appetite for shark facts for at least a year.

   A single bowl of stew sated the hungry travelers.

   Note

   This is the regular past of the verb, and like the verb it takes an object: the meal sated them. The past participle is spelled the same way (they were sated by noon), and from it comes the adjective of full satisfaction. Keep it apart from the dated, poetic sate, which is itself an old past of sit and so never becomes sated.

3. 3
   adjective

   With one's hunger or thirst satisfied after eating or drinking enough.

   The lions lay sated in the shade beside what was left of the zebra.

   A glass of cold water left her sated after the long run.

   Similarfull, satisfied, satiated, replete

   Oppositehungry, thirsty, starving

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