Slake

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
  • v. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
  • v. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
  • v. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.
  • verb-intransitive. To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To go out; to become extinct.
  • v. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To allay; to quench; to extinguish.
  • v. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack.
  • verb-intransitive. To go out; to become extinct.
  • verb-intransitive. To abate; to become less decided.
  • verb-intransitive. To slacken; to become relaxed.
  • verb-intransitive. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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. Specifically
  • To 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make less active or intense
  • v. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
  • v. satisfy (thirst)
  • Verb Form
    slaked    slakes    slaking   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    minify    lessen    decrease    satisfy    fill    fulfill    meet    fulfil   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    slaked   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    slack    abate    slacken    moderate    appease    extinguish   
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