sateEnglishOxford American Thesaurussate verb 1 he rested, his passion temporarily sated: satiate, fully satisfy; slake, quench, take the edge off. ▷antonyms starve, deprive, dissatisfy. 2 the children were sated with blackberries: gorge, stuff, fill, overfill, overfeed, surfeit, glut, cloy.