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5 lettersPronunciation /sleɪk/Part of speech verbSorted aeklsStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

Word origin

From Middle English slaken (“to render slack, to slake”), from Old English sleacian, from Old English slæc (“slack”). Unrelated to, but possibly influenced by, the Old Norse sløkkva (“to extinguish”), compare Swedish släcka in the phrase släcka sin törst (“quench one's thirst”), släcka elden (“put out the fire”), and släckt kalk (“slaked lime”).

Used in a sentence

  • slake the heavenly fire
  • It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
  • Tarzan went to the brook first, and slaked his thirst. Then he approached his cabin.

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