slaking

Verb

slake (third-person singular simple present slakes, present participle slaking, simple past and past participle slaked)

1. (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
   • slake the heavenly fire1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40

   Synonyms:

   quench, extinguish

2. (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
   • Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, page 14
3. (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
   • The lime slakes.
4. (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
   • to slake lime
5. (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.
   • When the body's strongest sinews slake.1595, John Davies, Orchestra

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