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    The vampire satiated her lust for blood.
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    The traditional vampires were going as far away as possible to satiate their thirst.  (source)
    satiate = indulge their hunger; or fill to satisfaction
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    The urge to watch them would be satiated and guilt would set in, and on those evenings, I would despise what I had done.  (source)
    satiated = filled to satisfaction
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    They devoured each other with young wet kisses, insatiate, unhappy, trying to grow together in their embrace, draw out the last distillation of desire in a single kiss.†  (source)
    insatiate = not possible to satisfy
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insatiate means not and reverses the meaning of satiate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Little wonder, how the gods toyed with humans. ...toyed with men, to satiate their Seven Deadly Sins.  (source)
    satiate = satisfy (the hunger of)
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    As a waitress in a local restaurant, she was no stranger to making sure customers' appetites were satiated.  (source)
    satiated = filled to satisfaction
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    He will doubtless seek other means of satiating his dark passion.  (source)
    satiating = satisfying
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    It lulls the Steppenwolf to sleep and satiates him.†  (source)
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    Beyond the physical, the basic and apparently unsatiable lust she inspired in him, was a constant fascination.†  (source)
    unsatiable = not capable of being satisfied
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsatiable means not and reverses the meaning of satiable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    After all the guests have put down their forks and sighed in satiation, they talk with Grandfather, who leans back on a pile of thick white pillows.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    —this man whom Henry first saw riding perhaps through the grove at the University on one of the two horses which he kept there or perhaps crossing the campus on foot in the slightly Frenchified cloak and hat which he wore, or perhaps (I like to think this) presented formally to the man reclining in a flowered, almost feminised gown, in a sunny window in his chambers—this man handsome elegant and even catlike and too old to be where he was, too old not in years but in experience, with some tangible effluvium of knowledge, surfeit: of actions done and satiations plumbed and pleasures exhausted and even forgotten.†  (source)
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    the pageant, the scene, the act, entering upon the stage—the magnolia-faced woman a little plumper now, a woman created of by and for darkness whom the artist Beardsley might have dressed, in a soft flowing gown designed not to infer bereavement or widowhood but to dress some interlude of slumbrous and fatal insatiation, of passionate and inexorable hunger of the flesh, walking beneath a lace parasol and followed by a bright gigantic negress carrying a silk cushion and leading by the hand the little boy whom Beardsley might not only have dressed but drawn—a thin delicate child with a smooth ivory sexless face who, after his mother handed the negress the parasol and took the cushion and knel†  (source)
    insatiation = the condition of being impossible to satisfy
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insatiation means not and reverses the meaning of satiation. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    For hand in glove with that power was an insatiate greed; they were one and the same.†  (source)
    insatiate = not possible to satisfy
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