slaking
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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.
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slaked, slak·ing.
- : to become slaked.
- : Archaic. to become less active, intense, vigorous, etc.; abate.
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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.