SLAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slake mean? 

• SLAKE (verb)
  The verb SLAKE has 3 senses:

1. satisfy (thirst)

2. make less active or intense

3. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

  Familiarity information: SLAKE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAKE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slake    ... he / she / it slakes   
Past simple: slaked   
Past participle: slaked   
-ing form: slaking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Satisfy (thirst)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

allay; assuage; quench; slake

Context example:

The cold water quenched his thirst

Hypernyms (to "slake" is one way to...):

conform to; fill; fit; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction)

"Slake" entails doing...:

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make less active or intense

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

abate; slack; slake

Hypernyms (to "slake" is one way to...):

decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

slack; slake

Context example:

slack lime

Hypernyms (to "slake" is one way to...):

hydrate (cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slake"):

air-slake (alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I slaked my thirst at the brook, and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to slake his burning thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)