Slake Definition

slāk
slaked, slakes, slaking
verb
slaked, slakes, slaking
To allay or make (thirst, desire, etc.) less active or intense by satisfying; assuage; satisfy.
Webster's New World
To become slaked.
Webster's New World
To satisfy (a craving); quench.
Slaked her thirst.
American Heritage
To cause (a fire) to die down or go out.
Webster's New World
To produce a chemical change in (lime) by combination with water.
Slaked lime is calcium hydroxide.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Slake

  • Middle English slaken to abate from Old English slacian from slæc slack, sluggish slack1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English slaken (“to render slack, to slake"), from Old English sleacian, from sleac (“slack").

    From Wiktionary

Slake Sentence Examples

  • There will be a bar to slake the thirst generated by all the activity.

  • If Xander didn't feed now, he was going to go on a rampage and slaughter half the apartment building to slake his hunger.

  • Around the 1880s the foundry Arms Pub was built, no doubt to slake the thirst of the foundry workers.

  • These may slake slowly in the finished cement and cause such expansion as may destroy the work of which it forms part.

  • In a different time, he'd simply command her to take her place at his side and in his bed as his mate and slake his heated blood whenever he felt the need.

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Words Starting With

SSLSLA

Words Ending With

EKEAKE

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Words Starting With S and Ending With E

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