| 单词 | slake |
| 释义 | slake (once / 4944 pages) v When you slake something, such as a desire or a thirst, you satisfy it. A big glass of lemonade on a hot summer day will slake your thirst. The word slake traces back to the Old English word slacian, meaning to “become less eager.” If you slake something, like thirst, you become less eager to drink. In other words, you are less thirsty. Like satisfy and quench, close relatives of slake in meaning, the word is used to indicate that a craving is made less intense by getting whatever it is that you crave. WORD FAMILYslake: slaked, slakes, slaking USAGE EXAMPLESGrowing aware that his “love for his friend” may be “something else,” he turns to casual gay trysts to slake his desires. Washington Post(Oct 27, 2016) But those studies hardly slake people’s thirst for answers to questions about how to eat or how much to exercise. New York Times(Aug 11, 2016) Though I’ll probably get sick later, for the present moment it has slaked my thirst. Slate(Aug 04, 2016) 1v satisfy (thirst) Syn|Hyper allay, assuage, quench fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy fill or meet a want or need 2v make less active or intense Syn|Hyper abate, slack decrease, lessen, minify make smaller 3v cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water Syn|Hypo|Hyper slack air-slake alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate hydrate cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to |
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