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verb (used with object), slaked, slak·ing.

  1. to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
  2. to cool or refresh: He slaked his lips with ice.
  3. to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc.: His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
  4. to cause disintegration of (lime) by treatment with water.Compare slaked lime.
  5. Obsolete. to make loose or less tense; slacken.

verb (used without object), slaked, slak·ing.

  1. (of lime) to become slaked.
  2. Archaic. to become less active, intense, vigorous, etc.; abate.

verb

  1. (tr) literary to satisfy (thirst, desire, etc)
  2. (tr) poetic to cool or refresh
  3. Also: slack to undergo or cause to undergo the process in which lime reacts with water or moist air to produce calcium hydroxide
  4. archaic to make or become less active or intense

v.late Old English sleacian, slacian “become slack or remiss; slacken an effort” (intransitive); “delay, retard” (transitive), from slæc “lax” (see slack (adj.)). Transitive sense of “make slack” is from late 12c. Sense of “allay, diminish in force, quench, extinguish” (in reference to thirst, hunger, desire, wrath, etc.) first recorded early 14c. via notion of “make slack or inactive.” Related: Slaked; slaking.

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