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Satisfy   /sˈætəsfˌaɪ/  /sˈætɪsfˌaɪ/   Listen
Satisfy

verb
(past & past part. satisfied; pres. part. satisfying)
1.
Meet the requirements or expectations of.  Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, live up to.
2.
Make happy or satisfied.  Synonym: gratify.
3.
Fill or meet a want or need.  Synonyms: fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet.






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"Satisfy" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the pregnant woman should be simple, wholesome, nutritious, of the kind that is easily digested and enough to satisfy the demands of her system; excessive eating should be avoided. A mixed diet is to be preferred, but the diet should be of such kind as to help to overcome the constipation, usual in pregnancy. Meat should not be eaten ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... the commission are too important to be overlooked in this connection. The reader must peruse the Report itself, if he needs to satisfy himself as to the care taken in conducting the investigations: but the foregoing names sufficiently attest the indisputable nature ...
— Cattle and Their Diseases • Robert Jennings

... right sort, or else went on to seek it elsewhere. But one ingredient, in particular, seemed almost impossible to be found. Some chemists plainly admitted they had never seen it; others denied that such a drug existed, excepting in the imagination of crazy alchemists; and most of them attempted to satisfy their customer, by producing some substitute, which, when rejected by Wayland, as not being what he had asked for, they maintained possessed, in a superior degree, the self-same qualities. In general they all displayed some curiosity concerning the purpose for which he wanted it. One old, ...
— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... to satisfy them on this point, but, passing on beyond the first recess entered, they were amazed to find a second grottoed recess, similar to the first, but much longer, and here, with merely a wall separating them from the other recess, was an orgy of ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay

... blind alley with no possible outlet. So where was Captain Nemo taking us? I was unable to say. Which didn't satisfy the Canadian, who that day asked me where ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne


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