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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLAKE, v.t. To quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. And slake the heav'nly fire.
SLAKE, v.i.
1. To go out; to become extinct.
2. To grow less tense. [a mistake for slack.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn: quench, slake, allay, assuage]
2: make less active or intense [syn: slake, abate, slack]
3: cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water; "slack lime" [syn: slack, slake]

Merriam Webster's

verb (slaked; slaking) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English slacian, from sleac slack Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. archaic subside, abate 2. to become slaked ; crumble <lime may slake spontaneously in moist air> transitive verb 1. archaic to lessen the force of ; moderate 2. satisfy, quench <slake your thirst> <will slake your curiosity> 3. to cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water ; hydrate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 assuage or satisfy (thirst, revenge, etc.). 2 disintegrate (quicklime) by chemical combination with water. Etymology: OE slacian f. slæc SLACK(1)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slake Slake, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaking.] [OE. slaken to render slack, to slake, AS. sleacian, fr. sleac slack. See Slack, v. & a.] 1. To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst. ``And slake the heavenly fire.'' --Spenser. It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart. --Shak. 2. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Slake Slake, v. i. 1. To go out; to become extinct. ``His flame did slake.'' --Sir T. Browne. 2. To abate; to become less decided. [R.] --Shak. 3. To slacken; to become relaxed. ``When the body's strongest sinews slake.'' [R.] --Sir J. Davies. 4. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes. Slake trough, a trough containing water in which a blacksmith cools a forging or tool.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(slakes, slaking, slaked) If you slake your thirst, you drink something that stops you being thirsty. VERB

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Quench, extinguish, allay, abate, decrease, slacken. 2. Slack (as lime). II. v. n. 1. Desist, fail, go out, be quenched, become extinct. 2. Abate, decrease, become less decided.

Moby Thesaurus

abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, bate, benumb, cloy, cram, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, diminish, dull, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, engorge, feast, feed, fill, fill up, foment, fulfill, give relief, glut, gorge, gratify, jade, lay, lessen, let down, let up, loose, loosen, lull, mitigate, mollify, numb, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pad, pall, palliate, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, quench, reduce, regale, relax, relieve, remit, salve, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, soften, soothe, stuff, stupe, subdue, supersaturate, surfeit, unbend, unbrace, unstrain, unstring