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Deluge is a related term of sate.


As a proper noun deluge

is (bible) the biblical flood during the time of noah.

As a verb sate is

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deluge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A great flood or rain.
    • The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
  • An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
    • The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
  • * Milton
    • A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
  • * Lowell
    • The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
  • (Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature within the Vertical Launching System.
  • * NAVEDTRA 14324A
    • In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.

    Verb

  • To flood with water.
  • To overwhelm.
    • After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.

    References

    * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

    See also

    * inundate ----

    sate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From earlier sate, . More at (l).

    Verb

    (sat)
  • To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
    • At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated .
  • * Macaulay
    • crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • And still the hours passed, and at last I knew by the glimmer of light in the tomb above that the sun had risen again, and a maddening thirst had hold of me. And then I thought of all the barrels piled up in the vault and of the liquor that they held; and stuck not because 'twas spirit, for I would scarce have paused to sate that thirst even with molten lead.
    Usage notes
    Used interchangeably with, though less common than, satiate.“ Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog
    Synonyms
    * satiate
    Related terms
    * satiate * satisfactory * saturate * surfeit

    References

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dated) (sit)
    • Quotations
    * (sit)

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • satay

    • Anagrams

    * ----