SATES Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

sates

verb

present tense third-person singular of sate

as in stuffs

to fill with food to capacity I sated myself with an array of decadent offerings from the dessert table

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diets
fasts

as in satisfies

to put a complete end to (a physical need or desire) a huge meal that should have sated everyone's hunger

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Wilson is again a dominant force on both ends of the floor, stuffs the box score with points, rebounds and blocks, and has improved every season while keeping the Aces as a perennial contender.

— Annie Costabile, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Throughout, visiting tourist Madeleine (Kristen Stewart) stuffs her face with every kind of meat, vegetable and carb while her father Phil (Woody Harrelson) is the one whose stomach miraculously swells.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026

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Central to the reorganization is an institutional separation between standard setting and conformity assessment—the process used to determine whether a product, facility or company satisfies those standards.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 20 Aug. 2026
In two or more dimensions, both of these lines count as fractals — that’s because a line takes up no area and leaves most of the surrounding space empty, which satisfies the condition of having many holes.

— Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of satisfies

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Patricia Silvia’s family fills the first two rows of the small viewing room attached to the execution chamber.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Aug. 2026
Ella Langley Claims Two Top Five Albums Langley fills two spaces inside the top five on the Top Country Albums chart this week.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

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