sate
verbEtymology
Alteration (after words such as satiate and satisfy) of earlier sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). Cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”). Doublet of sad.
Definitions
To satisfy the appetite or desire of
To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up.
- At last he stopped, his hunger and thirst sated.
- crowds of wanderers sated with the business and pleasure of great cities
simple past of sit
- And all the day the girl sate trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.
past participle of sit
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satay
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at sate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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