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slaking

/sleyk/US // sleɪk //UK // (sleɪk) //

晃动,晃晃悠悠,晃晃悠悠的,晃荡

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
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    slaked, slak·ing.

    • : to allay by satisfying.
    • : to cool or refresh: He slaked his lips with ice.
    • : to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc.: His calm manner slaked their enthusiasm.
    • : to cause disintegration of by treatment with water.Compare slaked lime.
    • : to moisten; wet: To thicken the sauce, add a tablespoon of cornstarch slaked with a little cold water.
    • : Obsolete. to make loose or less tense; slacken.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    slaked, slak·ing.

    • : to become slaked.
    • : Archaic. to become less active, intense, vigorous, etc.; abate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdecrease

Examples

  • The other pandemic winners were home-delivery sites such as Drizly and Minibar, third-party services promising to slake your thirst within an hour of you placing an order over their apps.

  • It just might slake the thirst of those living in remote or dry areas.

  • Occasionally a rugged vat of this mud is found boiling away—very suggestive of slaking lime.

  • If her association with him had begotten in Lola Montez a thirst for wit and genius, she had every chance of slaking it in Paris.

  • Fresh burned lime may be ground fine, so that it can be spread on land without slaking.

  • Burning and slaking afforded the only known method of reducing stone for use in sour soils.

  • Slaking, by the addition of water to the fresh burned lime, is the common method of getting the required physical condition.