Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To fulfill the need, desire, or expectation of.
- intransitive verb To fulfill (a need or desire).
- intransitive verb To free from doubt or question; convince.
- intransitive verb To provide sufficient explanation to dispel or answer (a doubt or question).
- intransitive verb To meet or be sufficient for (a requirement); conform to the requirements of (a standard, for example).
- intransitive verb To discharge (a debt or obligation, for example) in full.
- intransitive verb To discharge an obligation to (a creditor).
- intransitive verb To make reparation for; redress.
- intransitive verb Mathematics To make the left and right sides of (an equation) equal after substituting equivalent quantities for the unknown variables.
- intransitive verb To be sufficient or adequate.
- intransitive verb To give satisfaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To supply or gratify completely; fulfil the wishes or desires of; content: as, to
satisfy hunger or thirst; to satisfy one's curiosity or one's expectations. - To comply with; discharge fully; liquidate; pay; hence, to requite; remunerate; recompense: as, to
satisfy the claims of a creditor; to satisfy one for service rendered. - To make reparation or amends for; atone for; expiate: as, to
satisfy a wrong. - To assure or free from doubt, uncertainty, or suspense; convince; also, to set at rest, as a doubt: as, to
satisfy one's self by inquiry. - To fulfil the conditions of; answer: as, an algebraical equation is said to be satisfied when, after the substitution of particular expressions for the unknown quantities which enter it, the two members are equal.
- To give satisfaction or contentment: as, earthly good never satisfies.
- To make requital, reparation, or amends; atone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for.
- transitive verb To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to.
- transitive verb To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite.
- transitive verb To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince.
- intransitive verb To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
- intransitive verb To make payment or atonement; to atone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
do enough ; tomeet (needs); tofulfill (wishes, requirements). - verb To cause (a sentence) to be true when (the sentence) is interpreted in one's universe.
- verb dated, literary To
convince , toascertain .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make happy or satisfied
- verb meet the requirements or expectations of
- verb fill or meet a want or need
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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While I think of it let me ask, did the £15 I sent for the purpose of covering the remainder of the cost of Repairs advanced by Mr Austin satisfy all demands?
Letter 113 2009
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Unfortunately, after reading some of his comments he made during the August break to satisfy is conservative base I've put him in the far right group.
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Tonight kae_dash has aikido so I'm a little adrift, but not unhappy for it, about the most important question I have to satisfy, is what will I have for dinner?
August 8th, 2006 mynxii 2006
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The first palette to satisfy is a longing for a non-telic and perhaps atheistic or deistic worldview.
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That allowed the retailer to order enough units of a title to satisfy nearly every customer who wanted to see it upon release, without facing the huge financial risk inherent to the old system.
The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004
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That allowed the retailer to order enough units of a title to satisfy nearly every customer who wanted to see it upon release, without facing the huge financial risk inherent to the old system.
The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004
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That allowed the retailer to order enough units of a title to satisfy nearly every customer who wanted to see it upon release, without facing the huge financial risk inherent to the old system.
The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004
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That allowed the retailer to order enough units of a title to satisfy nearly every customer who wanted to see it upon release, without facing the huge financial risk inherent to the old system.
The Movie Business Book, Third Edition Edited by Jason E. Squire 2004
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The argument that men have more expensive tastes to satisfy is too feeble to deserve attention.
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Plus, the calls "satisfy expectations" for voters.
The Seattle Times 2011
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