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Audio Help [sleyk] Pronunciation Key verb, slaked, slak·ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.

2.	to cool or refresh: He slaked his lips with ice.

3.	to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc.: His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.

4.	to cause disintegration of (lime) by treatment with water. Compare slaked lime.

5.	Obsolete. to make loose or less tense; slacken.

–verb (used without object)

6.	(of lime) to become slaked.

7.	Archaic. to become less active, intense, vigorous, etc.; abate.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME slaken to mitigate, allay, moderate, lessen one's efforts, OE slacian to slacken, lessen one's efforts, equiv. to slæc slack¹ + -ian causative v. suffix

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—Related forms

slak·a·ble, slake·a·ble, adjective

slakeless, adjective

—Synonyms 1. satisfy, quench, gratify, relieve.

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slake Audio Help   (slāk) Pronunciation Key
v.   slaked, slak·ing, slakes

v.   tr.

To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
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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slake

O.E. slacian "slacken an effort," from slæc "lax" (see slack). Sense of "allay" (in ref. to thirst, hunger, desire) first recorded c.1325.

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slake
verb
1.	satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn: quench]
2.	make less active or intense
3.	cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime" [syn: slack]

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Slake

A*slake"\ ([.a]*sl[=a]k"), v. t. & i. [AS. [=a]slacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake.] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] --Chaucer.

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Slack\, a. [Compar. Slacker; superl. Slackest.] [OE. slak, AS. sleac; akin to OS. slak, OHG. slah, Prov. G. schlack, Icel. slakr, Sw. slak; cf. Skr. s[.r]j to let loose, to throw. Cf. Slake.] Lax; not tense; not hard drawn; not firmly extended; as, a slack rope.

2. Weak; not holding fast; as, a slack hand. --Milton.

3. Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness. --2 Pet. iii. 9.

4. Not violent, rapid, or pressing; slow; moderate; easy; as, business is slack. "With slack pace." --Chaucer.

C?sar . . . about sunset, hoisting sail with a slack southwest, at midnight was becalmed. --Milton.

Slack in stays (Naut.), slow in going about, as a ship.

Slack water, the time when the tide runs slowly, or the water is at rest; or the interval between the flux and reflux of the tide.

Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams.

Syn: Loose; relaxed; weak; remiss; backward; abated; diminished; inactive; slow; tardy; dull.

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Slake

Slake\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaking.] [OE. slaken to render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See Slack, v. & a.]

1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. "And slake the heavenly fire." --Spenser.

It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. --Shak.

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

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Slake

Slake\, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. "His flame did slake." --Sir T. Browne.

2. To abate; to become less decided. [R.] --Shak.

3. To slacken; to become relaxed. "When the body's strongest sinews slake." [R.] --Sir J. Davies.

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

Slake trough, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool.

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Slake

Slock\, Slocken \Slock"en\, v. t. To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake. [Obs. or Scot.]

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