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slake

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slake  (slk)
v. slaked, slak·ing, slakes
v.tr.
1. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
2. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
3. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
4. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.
v.intr.
To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

[Middle English slaken, to abate, from Old English slacian, from slæc, slack, sluggish; see slack1.]

slake
Verb
[slaking, slaked]
1. Literary to satisfy (thirst or desire)
2. to add water to (lime) to produce calcium hydroxide [Old English slacian]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.slake - satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
fulfil, fulfill, satisfy, meet, fill - fill or meet a want or need
2.slake - make less active or intense
minify, decrease, lessen - make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
3.slake - cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime"
hydrate - cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to; "hydrate your skin"
air-slake - alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate; "air-slake lime"
Translations
Spanish slake [sleɪk] vt [+ one's thirst] → apagar
French slake [sleɪk] vt (one's thirst) → étancher
German slake [sleɪk] vt (thirst) → stillen
Italian slake [sleɪk] vt [+ one's thirst] → spegnere

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My first act on coming to this water was, of course, to slake my thirst.
The other Growleywogs were not slow to follow suit, and even before they had finished drinking the Chief of the Whimsies and his people came to push them away, while they one and all cast off their false heads that they might slake their thirst at the fountain.
I saw him once in a towering rage because one of his herdsmen had permitted a travel-heated Asian to slake his thirst at the horse-trough in front of the saloon end of Jo.
 
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