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Satisfy   /sˈætəsfˌaɪ/  /sˈætɪsfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Satisfy  v. t.  (past & past part. satisfied; pres. part. satisfying)  
1.
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. "Death shall... with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw."
2.
To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.
3.
To answer or discharge, as a claim, debt, legal demand, or the like; to give compensation for; to pay off; to requite; as, to satisfy a claim or an execution.
4.
To free from doubt, suspense, or uncertainty; to give assurance to; to set at rest the mind of; to convince; as, to satisfy one's self by inquiry. "The standing evidences of the truth of the gospel are in themselves most firm, solid, and satisfying."
Synonyms: To satiate; sate; content; grafity; compensate. See Satiate.


Satisfy  v. i.  
1.
To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.
2.
To make payment or atonement; to atone.





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"Satisfy" Quotes from Famous Books



... came over, and peered into the face of the half-breed. Then she muttered: "I know you—I know you. The dead has come back again." She caught his arm with her bony fingers as if to satisfy herself that he was flesh and blood, and shaking her head dolefully, went from the room. When the door closed behind her there was silence, broken only by an exclamation from ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... figuring up the amounts, "we've sold thirty-two thousand dollars' worth of bonds this morning. That's encouraging for three hours' work, but it's not enough to satisfy us. We must put in a busy afternoon and try to get a total of at least one hundred thousand by to-night. To-morrow we must do better than that. Work as late as you can, girls, and at eight o'clock we will meet again at Alora's house ...
— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)
... this wonderful, for ocular proof was scarce enough to satisfy the oldest retainers of the family of the young lord's identity; and indeed ocular proof was rendered in some sort dubious by the great alteration which had taken place in the appearance of the personage ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various
... own real interests, and of what was due to Hickman. He wanted an agent with less feeling, less scruple, less independence, and more of that accommodating principle which would yield itself to, and go down with, the impetuous current of his offensive vices, and satisfy their cravings even at his own ruin. Such, then, was M'Clutchy—such the position of Mr. Hickman, the agent—and such the general state of the Castle Cumber property. As to the principles and necessities of its proprietor, if they are not already known, ...
— Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton
... life went out. The drover was devoted to his son. He was one of those splendid men who do things as well as they possibly can in order to satisfy their own stanch sense of honour; but there can be no doubt that one of the main springs of Boss Stobart's life was the thought that he would one day share it with his son. And now Sax was dead! ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman


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