slake

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1. slake - Noun

2. slake - Adjective

3. slake - Verb

Meaning

To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.

To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.

To go out; to become extinct.

To abate; to become less decided.

To slacken; to become relaxed.

To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.

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God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst. James Fenimore Cooper

Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrils From Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake: "Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen; Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake." Louis MacNeice

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom. Colin Wilson

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. John Hanning Speke

And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst. Charles Baudelaire

Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst! What will not men to slake such thirst? John Conington

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