slake

1. (transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).Examples: "slake the heavenly fire"; "It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart."; "Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom."Synonyms: quench, extinguishtransitive

2. (transitive) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.Examples: "Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water."transitive

3. (intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.Examples: "The lime slakes."intransitive

4. (transitive) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.Examples: "to slake lime"transitive

5. (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.intransitiveobsolete

6. (intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.Examples: "When the body's strongest sinews slake."intransitiveobsolete