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slake
/sleɪk/
verb 6noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
great, heavenly, similar
VERB + SLAKE
allow
SLAKE + NOUN
character, ire, thirst
PREP.
with
Definitions
verb
1
To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).
slake the heavenly fire
It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
2
To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
3
To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
The lime slakes.
4
To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
to slake lime
5
Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
verb
1
To besmear.
noun
1
A sloppy mess.
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Idioms & Phrases
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slake the heavenly fire
Wiktionary02
It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
Wiktionary03
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
Wiktionary04
The slakes are waste lands bordering on the seashore, which are covered with water when the tide comes in. The word is common in Northumberland, where the slakes between the Mainland and Holy Island,
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A "slake" of similar character, but of much less extent, was, until recently, found within the estuary of the Tyne. This is […] "Jarrow Slake" [...] frequented by great numbers of aquatic birds.
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[Concerning] Fenham Slakes, Mr Bolam procured from the Rev. W. W. F. Keeling, of the vicarage, Holy Island, the information that "Thomas Bowey, over at the Beacons, shot on the slakes a young one, rat
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