Sate vs Suffice - What's the difference?
sate | suffice | Related terms |
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
* Macaulay
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
(dated) (sit)
To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
* Milton
To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
* 1838 , The Church of England quarterly review (page 203)
To furnish; to supply adequately.
Sate is a related term of suffice.
As verbs the difference between sate and suffice
is that sate is while suffice is to be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.sate
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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
Synonyms
* satiateReferences
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Verb
(head)Quotations
* (sit)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Anagrams
* ----suffice
English
Verb
(suffic)- Two capsules of fish oil a day suffices .
- To recount almighty works, / What words or tongue of seraph can suffice ?
- A joint of lamb sufficed even his enormous appetite.
- Lord Brougham's salary would have sufficed more than ninety Prussian judges.
