# sated

Pronunciation: say "SAY-tid" /ˈseɪtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Completely satisfied, having had so much of something that one's appetite for it is fully met.
   - Simple: Having had as much of something as you want, so you need no more.
   - _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._
3. With one's hunger or thirst satisfied after eating or drinking enough.
   - Simple: No longer hungry or thirsty because you have eaten or drunk 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._

## Verb

2. Past tense of sate. — simple past of sate
   - Simple: Past tense of sate. Use it to say that something filled a hunger or a wish in the past.
   - _The documentary sated my appetite for shark facts for at least a year._
   - _A single bowl of stew sated the hungry travelers._

## Origin

From Middle English satet or saded; equivalent to sate + -ed.

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