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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rest on one's behind |
| Synonyms: | be seated, bear on, cover, ensconce, give feet a rest, grab a chair, have a place, have a seat, hunker, install, lie, park*, perch*, plop down, pose, posture, put it there, relax, remain, rest, seat, seat oneself, settle, squat, take a load off, take a place, take a seat |
| Notes: | to set is to place something; to sit is to be seated |
| Antonyms: | stand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satiate |
| Synonyms: | glut, gorge, satisfy, stuff, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | sate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy |
| Synonyms: | cloy, glut, gorge, gratify, overfill, satiate, stuff, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, starve |
Example Sentences
- Few other experiences will sate your wanderlust better.
- It could only be imagined that the proposed sate would run in some sort of fascist dictatorship.
- It seems to sate the yen for cozy intimacy, long to steep, slow to unfold.
| Main Entry: | assuage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | soothe, relieve |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, appease, calm, compose, conciliate, cool*, ease, fill, lessen, lighten, lull, make nice, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, pour oil on, propitiate, quench, quiet, sate, satisfy, soften, still, surfeit, sweeten, take the edge off, take the sting out, temper, tranquilize |
| Antonyms: | exacerbate, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | baby-sit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for a child |
| Synonyms: | guard, sit, take care, tend, watch |
| Main Entry: | care |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tend to |
| Synonyms: | attend, baby sit, consider, foster, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, mind, mind the store, minister, mother, nurse, nurture, pay attention to, protect, provide for, ride herd on, sit, take pains, tend, treasure, wait on, watch, watch over |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | cloy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, stodge, suffice, surfeit, weary |
| Main Entry: | convene |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring together; meet |
| Synonyms: | assemble, call, call in, collect, come together, congregate, convoke, corral, gather, get together, hold meeting, muster, open, rally, round up, scare up, sit, summon, unite |
| Antonyms: | adjourn, call off, cancel, disperse, dissemble |
| Main Entry: | fill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | to put in and occupy the whole of |
| Synonyms: | block, blow up, brim over, bulge out, charge, choke, clog, close, congest, cram, crowd, distend, fulfill, furnish, glut, gorge, heap, impregnate, inflate, jam-pack, lade, load, meet, overflow, overspread, pack, pack like sardines, permeate, pervade, plug, puff up, pump up, ram, ram in, replenish, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, shoal, stock, stopper, store, stretch, stuff, supply, swell, take up, top, top off |
| Antonyms: | deplete, drain, empty, exhaust, spend, take, use, void |
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