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aslake

aslake verb: to abate; diminish.

Verb

aslake (third-person singular simple present aslakes, present participle aslaking, simple past and past participle aslaked)

  1. (archaic, intransitive, rare, transitive) To abate; diminish.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare, transitive) To moderate; mitigate; appease; satisfy.
    • The beast that prowls about in search of blood, / Or reptile that within the treacherous brake / Waits for the prey, upcoiled, its hunger to aslake. ― Southey, Paraguay.

Forms of aslake

third-person singular presentaslakes
present participleaslaking
past participleaslaked
pastaslaked

Origin of aslake

From Middle English aslaken, from Old English āslacian (“to become slack, decline, diminish, grow tired, make slack, loosen, relax, dissolve”), equivalent to a- + slake.

Questions about aslake

What does aslake mean?
Aslake means to abate; diminish.
What part of speech is aslake?
Aslake is a verb.
What is the past tense of aslake?
The past tense of aslake is aslaked.

Words near aslake in the dictionary

  1. askt
  2. Askvoll
  3. Askwith
  4. Askwiths
  5. asl
  6. aslake
  7. aslaked
  8. aslakes
  9. aslaking
  10. Aslan
  11. Aslanian

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