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Collocations for satisfy - verb

VERB + satisfy

have to, must, should
The education system must satisfy the needs of all children.
be able to, can
Nothing could satisfy his desire for power.
We could never satisfy all their requests
be unable to
The owners were unable to satisfy all the demands of the workers.
seem to
His answer seemed to satisfy her.
be enough to, be sufficient to
Her description of events was not enough to satisfy the court.
fail to
The meal failed to satisfy his hunger.

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Satisfy is used with these nouns as the object:
appetite, aspiration, condition, consumer, craving, criterion, curiosity, customer, demand, desire, ego, equation, expectation, fan, fantasy, greed, hunger, instinct, judge, longing, lust, need, preference, regulation, requirement, taste, thirst, tribunal, urge, want, whim, yearning

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