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AIR-SLAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does air-slake mean?
• AIR-SLAKE (verb)
The verb AIR-SLAKE has 1 sense:
1. alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate
Familiarity information: AIR-SLAKE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
air-slake lime
Hypernyms (to "air-slake" is one way to...):
slack; slake (cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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