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unslaked

unslaked adjective: not yet slaked.

Adjective

unslaked (not comparable)

  1. Not yet slaked
    • With throats unslaked, with black lips baked: / We could not laugh nor wail.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    • His blood lust yet unslaked (pardon the pun), the duke has the duchess executed[…].1988 April 8, Tom Boeker, “The Duchess of Malfi”, in Chicago Reader

Origin of unslaked

From un- + slaked.

Questions about unslaked

What does unslaked mean?
Unslaked means not yet slaked.
What part of speech is unslaked?
Unslaked is an adjective.

Words near unslaked in the dictionary

  1. unslacking
  2. unslagged
  3. unslain
  4. unslakable
  5. unslakeable
  6. unslaked
  7. unslammable
  8. unslammed
  9. unslandered
  10. unslanderous
  11. unslanted

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