slake
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English slaken (“‘to render slack", "to slake’”), from Old English sleacian, from sleac (“‘slack’”)
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪk
[edit] Verb
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to slake (third-person singular simple present slakes, present participle slaking, simple past and past participle slaked)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go out; to become extinct.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To abate; to become less decided.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed.
- (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.
- (transitive) To dash water on a hot surface to cool it.
- 1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, page 14
- Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
- 1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, page 14
- (transitive) To satisfy; to quench.
- 1991, David Koulack, To catch a dream: explorations of dreaming, page 98:
- In that study, some of the subjects had dreams in which they were slaking their thirst, very much like the dreams of convenience Freud described.
- 1991, David Koulack, To catch a dream: explorations of dreaming, page 98:
[edit] Synonyms
- (become mixed with water): hydrate
