Definition of Satisfy

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Satisfy

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.

To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor.

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.

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.

To give satisfaction; to afford gratification; to leave nothing to be desired.

To make payment or atonement; to atone.

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Satisfy Quotations

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.
Woodrow Wilson

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin

Satisfy Translations

satisfy in Dutch is bevredigen, paaien, tegemoetkomen aan
satisfy in French is satisfaisons, satisfais, satisfont, contenter
satisfy in German is befriedige, zufriedenstellen, befriedigen
satisfy in Italian is accontentare
satisfy in Latin is impleo, saturo
satisfy in Spanish is complacer, apaciguar, satisfacer

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