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US
/ˈsætəsˌfaɪ, ˈsætɪsˌfaɪ/
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[ UK /sˈætɪsfˌaɪ/ ]
[ UK /sˈætɪsfˌaɪ/ ]
VERB
- meet the requirements or expectations of
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fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction
does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?
This job doesn't match my dreams
meet a need - make happy or satisfied
How To Use satisfy In A Sentence
- If the indoor tables don't satisfy you, and if the weather is right, do ask for a table on the terrace.
- Jonathan's soothing assurances did not satisfy David, and he 'sware' in the earnestness of his conviction. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- She gave me a cheerful grin and rattled off her past employers, accompanied by a brief biodata, both seemingly satisfying.
- Some came to seek the new power, some to chuckle, others to satisfy their curiosity.
- This is unsatisfying in many respects, for, as should be clear at this point, we often need to nontrivially reason about theories which Impossible Worlds
- At least it is not, so long as we avoid equivocating on the notion of satisfying a desire.
- Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
- The conductor worked hard for a first-class result, the cohesiveness of the entire composition leaving a most satisfying afterglow.
- The only element of the production that fails to satisfy is the heavily miked, synthesizer-dominated orchestra, which sounds artificial and dead. A 'King' That Is Full of Aces