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/ˈsætɪsˌfaɪ/ 
| present tense | |
| I/you/we/they | satisfy |
| he/she/it | satisfies |
| present participle | satisfying |
| past tense | satisfied |
| past participle | satisfied |
- 1[transitive] to please someone by giving them something that they want or need
an agreement that is unlikely to satisfy environmental campaigners
It’s impossible to satisfy everyone.
- a.[intransitive/transitive] if something satisfies your needs or wants, it gives you what you need or want
celebrities who will do almost anything to satisfy their craving for publicity
satisfy someone’s curiosity:I just want to satisfy my curiosity – why did he do it?
satisfy someone’s hunger/appetite/thirst:There’s nothing like a cold beer to satisfy your thirst.
satisfy the demand for something (=provide as much as people want):Entire forests are being destroyed to satisfy the demand for wooden furniture.
Collocations: satisfy
▪ appetite, aspiration, craving, curiosity, demand, desire, greed, need, urge, want, wish - 2[transitive] if something satisfies a rule, condition, or standard, it has all the qualities or features that are necessary according to the rule, condition, etc.
Students must satisfy all the requirements to be accepted into the program.
Collocations: satisfy
▪ condition, criterion, expectation, requirement, test - 3[transitive] to provide someone with the evidence that they need in order to be certain that something is truesatisfy someone/yourself (that):
The prosecution has to satisfy the jury that the defendant is guilty.
We’ll be carrying out our own inspection, to satisfy ourselves that safety standards are acceptable.
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