sate down

as inland
as inlight
as inrest
as instrike
as in
as indeposit

Synonyms for sate down

verb arrive, come to rest on

Antonyms for sate down

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., "dense, close, compact," from Middle English thight, from Old Norse þettr "watertight, close in texture, solid," from Proto-Germanic *thenkhtuz (cf. second element in Old English meteþiht "stout from eating;" Middle High German dihte "dense, thick," German dicht "dense, tight," Old High German gidigan, German gediegen "genuine, solid, worthy"), from PIE root *tenk- "to become firm, curdle, thicken" (cf. Irish techt "curdled, coagulated," Lithuanian tankus "close, tight," Persian tang "tight," Sanskrit tanakti "draws together, contracts").

Sense of "drawn, stretched" is from 1570s; meaning "fitting closely" (as of garments) is from 1779; that of "evenly matched" (of a contest, bargain, etc.) is from 1828, American English; that of "drunk" is from 1830; that of "close, sympathetic" is from 1956. Tight-assed "unwilling to relax" is attested from 1903. Tight-laced is recorded from 1741 in both the literal and figurative senses. Tight-lipped is first attested 1876.

Example Sentences for sate down

We saw him approach, he entered, drew a chair, and sate down.

So he put the letter into her hands, and sate down, watching her countenance.

She sate down on the ground, and laid her head on his knees.

He sate down on the table, and little by little he made me tell him all my troubles.

Then exhausted he sate down again, and put out his hand to Molly.

We sate down by the road-side, and then went to Wytheburn water.

Shakespeare, Jonson, and Massinger sate down to this obscure drudgery.

He sate down listlessly, and did not kiss her this time, as she stole toward him.

You see she had to do it, but after that she sate down and cried.

And then she sate down in the chair of the Middle-sized Bear, and that was too soft for her.