satiate

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 16, 2019 is: satiate \SAY-shee-ayt\ verb

: to [satisfy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satisfy) (a need, a desire, etc.) fully or to excess

Examples:

After eating three pieces of pie and one of cake at the potluck, Jamie's sweet tooth was finally satiated.

"While the battles between Shazam and his arch enemy Thaddeus Sivana … will satiate superhero fans, the emotional center of the movie is the Philadelphia foster family that embraces Billy." — [Brian Truitt, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2019](https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/04/03/5-ways-shazam-makes-dc-superhero-films-more-marvelous/3333401002/)

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Satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, and gorge all mean to fill to repletion. Satiate and [sate](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sate#h2) sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire, as in "Years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel" and "Readers were sated with sensationalistic stories." [Surfeit](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surfeit#h2) implies a nauseating repletion, as in "They surfeited themselves with junk food," while [cloy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cloy) stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting, "The strong scent of the flowers cloyed her." [Pall](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pall#h1) emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite—for example, "A life of leisure eventually began to pall." [Glut](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glut#h1) implies excess in feeding or supplying, as in "a market glutted with diet books," and [gorge](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gorge#h2) suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking, "They gorged themselves with chocolate."