Meaning

(transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
2. (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
3. (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
4. (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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.
7. (intransitive, obsolete) To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To go out; to become extinct.

Example Sentences

slake the heavenly fire

It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.

Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.

Tarzan went to the brook first, and slaked his thirst. Then he approached his cabin.

The booths of the publicans gazed shamelessly at the sun, with two empty porter barrels as supports at their doors, ready to smile at their clients with their seductive roundness, ready to lure the thirsty islanders into the gloomy recesses beneath the canvas, where Mulligan's assistant or Mrs Moroney's assistant would hand out frothy pints of porter and glistening tumblers of whisky to slake the thirst and set the blood tingling.

In that study, some of the subjects had dreams in which they were slaking their thirst, very much like the dreams of convenience Freud described.

Before the transformation takes / And blood lust tanks and crave gets slaked

Europeans’ labour requirements in the New World were also slaked by slaves from Africa.

Word Forms

• slakes
• slaking
• slaked

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