Satiate vs Englut - What's the difference?
satiate | englut |
To fill to satisfaction; to satisfy.
To satisfy to excess. To fill to satiety.
To swallow; to swallow up, engulf.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
*:Whose grieued mindes, which choler did englut , / Against themselues turning their wrathfull spight, / Gan with new rage their shields to hew and cut [...].
To glut, satiate.
As verbs the difference between satiate and englut
is that satiate is to fill to satisfaction; to satisfy while englut is to swallow; to swallow up, engulf.As an adjective satiate
is filled to satisfaction or to excess.satiate
English
Verb
(satiat)- Nothing seemed to satiate her desire for knowledge.
Usage notes
Used interchangeably with, and more common than, sate.“Monthly Gleanings: November 2011]: Sate'' versus ''satiated''.”, ''[http://blog.oup.com/ OUPblog