Sate vs Cloys - What's the difference?
sate | cloys |
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
* Macaulay
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(dated) (sit)
(cloy)
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
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As verbs the difference between sate and cloys
is that sate is to satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up while cloys is third-person singular of cloy.As a noun sate
is satay.sate
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Etymology 1
From earlier sate, . More at (l).Verb
(sat)- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated .
- crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
- 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