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aslaking

aslaking is the present participle and gerund of aslake.

Meaning of aslake

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.

Questions about aslaking

What is aslaking the present participle and gerund of?
Aslaking is the present participle and gerund of aslake.

Words near aslaking in the dictionary

  1. Askwiths
  2. asl
  3. aslake
  4. aslaked
  5. aslakes
  6. aslaking
  7. Aslan
  8. Aslanian
  9. Aslanians
  10. Aslanlar
  11. Aslans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aslaking (page history and authors); aslake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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