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SLAKE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

Example:

slack lime

Synonyms:

slack; slake

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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:

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Sense 2

Meaning:

Make less active or intense

Synonyms:

abate; slack; slake

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

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

decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)

Sentence frames:

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Sense 3

Meaning:

Satisfy (thirst)

Example:

The cold water quenched his thirst

Synonyms:

allay; assuage; quench; slake

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

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:

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