[
UK
/slˈeɪk/
]
VERB
-
cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
slack lime -
satisfy (thirst)
The cold water quenched his thirst - make less active or intense
How To Use slake In A Sentence
- His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
- The pigments, applied with water as a vehicle, are bound by the carbonation of the slaked lime in the fresh plaster.
- But this continuall cruell ciuill warre, the which my selfe against my selfe doe make: whilest my weak powres of passions warreid arre. no skill can stint nor reason can aslake. Amoretti and Epithalamion
- The first part, using slaked lime, should take about 20-30 minutes, while the second part should not add more than 15 minutes of practical work.
- ‘In the evening they came to a water hole,’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’
- There are no gloves, no pads, no iced tea to slake their thirst, no lemonade for breaks, and no hats to protect them from the sun.
- I don't think Dick will ever manage to slake his lust for power.
- New album on order; I like ‘Waiting for the Siren's Call,’ but not with unslakeable enthusiasm.
- He had preferred to go without rather than to slake his thirst at a tainted water hole. ONLY YOU
- Hydrated slaked lime is slaked quicklime that has reacted with water to form calcium hydroxide.
