slake
IPA: sɫˈeɪk
noun
- (Scotland) A sloppy mess.
verb
- (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
- (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
- (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
- (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go out; to become extinct.
- (transitive, Scotland) To besmear.
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Examples of "slake" in Sentences
- I slaked by drinking soda.
- She is also the partner of Slake.
- Hope this helps slake your curiosity a bit.
- Too bad it would do no more than slake his thirst.
- Hope this helps slake your curiosity a bit.. cheers
- Any unreacted calcium is slaked to calcium hydroxide.
- Go ahead for sourcing quarry water to slake growing thirst.
- No amount of human blood can slake my thirst for vengeance.
- Feds won't send Missouri River to slake thirst of Southwest.
- Wikipedia seems like the perfect resource to slake their curiosity.
- Limestone was baked in the retorts as part of the process to make slaked lime.
- If I can find them, perhaps they'll slake my thirst for Barker's short fiction.
- Drawn & Quarterly will slake my curiosity with Black Blizzard, the tale of two convicts, cuffed together and on the run.
- That the Saudis are even considering such a project shows how difficult and costly it is becoming to slake the world's thirst for oil.
- Some do and "fan fiction" is an excellent way for them to slake their thirst for content without destroying the mystery for everyone else.
- You begin changing what you can about yourself to slake the thirst of a grasping world, and to settle the demons of insecurity leaping at your psyche.
- Hoping to slake a thirst around 4 p.m., the audience member had been disappointed to learn that such obvious choices as PS 7's, Rasika and Zola don't serve drinks until closer to the dinner hour.
- Eager to slake their thirst for adventure, the brothers competed against a hundred others in the Enduro Africa off-road motorcycle rally, tearing across more than a thousand miles of rugged African terrain on their Honda CRF 230 cc bikes.