To become slack; loosen; slacken; fall off.To be lax, remiss, or negligent.To become less strong, active, energetic, severe, intense, or the like; abate; decrease; fail; cease.To desist; give over: fall short.To become disintegrated and loosened by the action of water; become chemically combined with water: as, the lime slakes.To make slack or slow; slow; slacken.To make slack or loose; render less tense, firm, or compact; slacken. SpecificallyTo loosen or disintegrate; reduce to powder by the action of water: as, to slake lime. Also slack.To let loose; release.To make slack or inactive; hence, to quench or extinguish, as fire, appease or assuage, as hunger or thirst, or mollify, as hatred: as, to slake one's hunger or thirst; to slake wrath.n. A channel through a swamp or mud-flat.n. Slime or mud.To besmear; daub.n. A slovenly or slabbery daub; a slight dabbing or bedaubing as with something soft and slabbery; a “lick.”n. A name of various species of Algæ, chiefly marine and of the edible sorts, as Ulva Lactuca, U. latissima, and Porphyra laciniata: applied also to fresh-water species, as Enteromorpha and perhaps Conferva.