slake

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When the lime begins to slake, add the sulfur and stir together.

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  1. transitive verb To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
  2. transitive verb To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
  3. transitive verb To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.

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  1. Middle English slaken, to abate, from Old English slacian, from slæc, slack, sluggish; see slack1.

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  1. (a) Slake, intransitive, Middle English slaken, sleken, slakien, from Anglo-Saxon sleacian, become slack or remiss (in comp. āsleacian); (b) English dial. slatch, transitive, from Middle English slekken, from Anglo-Saxon sleccan =Old Saxon slekkian, quench, extinguish (cf. Icelandic slökva, past participle slokinn, slake, Swedish släcka, Danish slukke, quench, allay, slake); from slæc, sleac, slack: see slack. Cf. slack, v., a doublet of slake.
  2. from Middle English slake, apparently a variant of slak, *slakke, from Icel slakki, a slope on a mountain's edge: see slack. The word seems to be confused in part with slake, and slack, n., 4.
  3. Prob. from Icelandic sleikja =Swedish slicka =Danish slikke, lick, =late Middle High German slecken, German schlecken, lick, lap, eat ravenously; perhaps akin to, or in some senses confused with, sleek, slick, slink.
  4. from slake, v.
  5. English dial. also slauke, sloke, sluke; perhaps connected with slake.
 

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