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satiate | glut | Synonyms |

Satiate is a synonym of glut.


As a verb satiate

is to fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.

As an adjective satiate

is filled to satisfaction or to excess.

As a noun glut is

heat, glow.

satiate

English

Verb

(satiat)
  • To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
    • Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
  • To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.

    • Usage notes

    Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.“ Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog

    Synonyms

    * sate

    Derived terms

    * satiated

    References

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled to satisfaction or to excess.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • satiate of applause

    Related terms

    * sate * satiation * satiety * satisfaction * satisfactory * satisfy

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    glut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an excess, too much
    • a glut of the market
  • * Macaulay
    • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • That which is swallowed.
    • (Milton)
  • Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
    • (Raymond)
  • (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
    • (Knight)
  • (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  • A block used for a fulcrum.
  • The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

    Antonyms

    * lack * shortage

    Related terms

    * glutton * gluttony

    Verb

  • To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
    • to glut one's appetite
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  • To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • * Tennyson
    • Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

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