slake
/sleik/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To satisfy or quench (a thirst, desire, or need): To fully relieve or fulfill a strong feeling of need, particularly thirst.
- To cause (lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water; to hydrate: A chemical process in which quicklime (calcium oxide) is mixed with water, producing heat and resulting in slaked lime (calcium hydroxide).
- To make less active, intense, or vigorous; to slacken: To reduce the force or intensity of something.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- The cold lemonade helped to slake my thirst on the hot day.
- Workers must slake the lime before it can be used in the mortar.
- Time did little to slake his anger over the insult.
Advanced Usage
- "to slake one's curiosity": to satisfy one's desire to know something.
- The detailed report finally slaked the public's curiosity about the incident.
- "to slake a passion": to satisfy or fulfill a strong emotion or desire.
- He traveled the world to slake his passion for adventure.
Variants and Related Words
- Slaked (adj): Refers to lime that has been treated with water, or a thirst/desire that has been satisfied.
- The builders used slaked lime in the mixture.
- After the long hike, he felt slaked and content.
- Unslaked (adj): Not satisfied or, in the case of lime, not treated with water.
- His ambition remained unslaked.
- Unslaked lime is highly reactive and caustic.
Synonyms
- Quench: To satisfy thirst; to extinguish.
- Satiate: To satisfy fully, often to excess.
- Assuage: To make less intense or severe.
- Hydrate: To cause to absorb water (specific to the lime context).
Phrasal Verbs
(This word is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions.)
Related Idioms
- "To slake a thirst": This is the standard idiomatic usage meaning to drink until one is no longer thirsty.
- Nothing slakes a thirst like cold water after exercise.
Verb
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- slack lime
- make less active or intense
- satisfy (thirst)
- The cold water quenched his thirst