[ UK /slˈe‍ɪk/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
    slack lime
  2. satisfy (thirst)
    The cold water quenched his thirst
  3. make less active or intense
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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.
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