- satiate, saturate
- (fiz, th) a satura
English-Romanian technical dictionary. 2013.
satiate, saturate
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Satiate — Sa ti*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Satiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Satiating}.] 1. To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to feed to the full; to furnish enjoyment to, to the extent of desire; to sate; as, to satiate appetite or sense. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
saturate — (v.) 1530s, to satisfy, satiate, from L. saturatus, pp. of saturare to fill full, sate, drench, from satur sated, full, from PIE root *sa to satisfy (see SAD (Cf. sad)). Meaning soak thoroughly first recorded 1756. Marketing sense first recorded… … Etymology dictionary
satiate — [v] stuff, satisfy completely or excessively cloy, content, feed to gills*, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit; concepts 169,740 Ant. deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting … New thesaurus
saturate — [v] drench, wet through bathe, douche, douse, imbue, immerse, impregnate, infuse, overfill, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, sate, satiate, soak, sop, souse, steep, suffuse, surfeit, transfuse, wash, waterlog; concept 256 Ant. dehydrate,… … New thesaurus
saturate — [16] Latin satur meant ‘full’, and in particular ‘full of food, full up’ (it was a relative of satis ‘enough’, source of English satiate and satisfy). From it was formed a verb saturāre ‘fill, glut, surfeit’, whose past participle has given… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
saturate — [16] Latin satur meant ‘full’, and in particular ‘full of food, full up’ (it was a relative of satis ‘enough’, source of English satiate and satisfy). From it was formed a verb saturāre ‘fill, glut, surfeit’, whose past participle has given… … Word origins
saturate — I. transitive verb ( rated; rating) Etymology: Latin saturatus, past participle of saturare, from satur well fed more at satire Date: 1538 1. to satisfy fully ; satiate 2. to treat, furnish, or charge with something to the point where no more can … New Collegiate Dictionary
satiate — Synonyms and related words: allay, appease, assuage, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, bore, brim, charge, chock, choke, cloy, congest, content, cram, crowd, deluge, drag on, drench, engorge, exhaust, fatigue, feast, feed, fill, fill to… … Moby Thesaurus
saturate — Synonyms and related words: allay, bathe, besprinkle, breathe, brew, brim, charge, chock, choke, cloy, color, congest, cram, crowd, decoct, douche, dredge, drench, drenched, dripping, drouk, dye, engorge, entincture, fill, fill to overflowing,… … Moby Thesaurus
satiate — v 1. surfeit, pall, overfill, overdo, indulge; cloy, glut, englut, stuff, cram, gorge, overfeed, Sl. pig out, Sl. stuff one s face; saturate, soak, drench, flood, deluge, engulf, inundate; overload, overburden; suffocate, choke, gag, sicken,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
saturate — v 1. soak, drench, wet through, sop, souse, waterlog, suffuse; ret, steep. 2. impregnate, ingrain, infuse, instill; permeate, penetrate, pervade, imbue, shoot through, imbrue; fill, charge, surfeit, glut, sate, satiate … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
