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slake

(slāk)

v. slaked, slak·ing, slakes

v.tr.

a. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.

b. Archaic To lessen the force or intensity of; moderate: slaking his anger.

2. 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.]

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Adj.

slaked - allayed; "his thirst quenched he was able to continue"

quenched, satisfied

mitigated - made less severe or intense; "he gladly accepted the mitigated penalty"

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He drank two-thirds of it himself; I think that he would have drunk it all had not his thirst been slaked; but when he had done he gave what was left to his mother, and she finished it.

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Tarzan went to the brook first, and slaked his thirst.

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When the wrath of the hater of the unrighteous was not slaked even in blood, and yet found favour?'

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Having worked at Jarndyce and Jarndyce like a galley slave, I have slaked my thirst for the law and satisfied myself that I shouldn't like it.

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But metaphor, however poetic, never slaked a dry throat.

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"White quartzose sand," Paul rattled off, "sodic carbonate, slaked lime, cutlet, manganese peroxide--there you have it, the finest French plate glass, made by the great St.

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I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.

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Here they eagerly slaked their thirst; but, this being allayed, the calls of hunger became equally importunate.

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"In addition to bricks and cellular concrete blocks, the plant produces porous concrete, quicklime and slaked lime, as well as quartz sand," the source noted.

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Add the slaked cornflour to the meat and return to the boil to cook out flour and thicken the gravy.

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Thin slices of the nut, either natural or processed, may be mixed with a variety of substances including slaked lime (calcium hydroxide) and spices such as cardamom, coconut and saffron.