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sate

Archaic Terms
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

To satisfy fully or completely, especially an appetite, desire, or need; to fill to excess or beyond satisfaction, sometimes implying surfeit or overindulgence.

Detailed Definition
“Sate” implies complete fulfillment—sated hunger, sated lust. In poetry, it often warns of excess. The term’s finality suits cautionary tone. Poets use it to explore desire’s limits, where sating brings contentment or disgust, reinforcing themes of moderation, transience, and the cycle of want in lyrical and moralizing contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The feast did sate the hunger of the poor,” in a charitable lyric; In satirical verse: “He sated himself on flattery”; “Her eyes sated themselves on beauty”; “No gold can sate the soul’s thirst”; “The land was sated with blood”; Sate not on vengeance, but on mercy.
Additional Notes
“Sate” implies complete, even excessive satisfaction; in carpe diem or cautionary poems, “sated desire” often precedes regret, framing fulfillment as fleeting or morally suspect in cycles of appetite and emptiness.
Also Known As
satisfy satiate glut
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