sate

Sate is defined as to fill with more than is needed, particularly with food.

(verb)

An example of to sate is to eat five cheeseburgers and six orders of cheese fries.

See sate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb sated, sating

Origin: prob. altered < dial. sade, akin to sad, infl. by L satiare, to fill full: see satiate

intransitive verb, transitive verb

Archaic sit

See sate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb sat·ed, sat·ing, sates

Origin:

Origin: Probably alteration of Middle English saden

Origin: , from Old English sadian; see sā- in Indo-European roots

verb
Archaic

A past tense of sit.

or sa·te

noun

Variants of satay.

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