slake

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To satisfy (a craving); quench: slaked her thirst.
2. v. To lessen the force or activity of; moderate: slaking his anger.
3. v. To cool or refresh by wetting or moistening.
4. v. To combine (lime) chemically with water or moist air.
5. v. To undergo a slaking process; crumble or disintegrate, as lime.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To become slack; loosen; slacken; fall off.
2. To be lax, remiss, or negligent.
3. To become less strong, active, energetic, severe, intense, or the like; abate; decrease; fail; cease.
4. To desist; give over: fall short.
5. To become disintegrated and loosened by the action of water; become chemically combined with water: as, the lime slakes.
6. To make slack or slow; slow; slacken.
7. To make slack or loose; render less tense, firm, or compact; slacken. Specifically
8. To loosen or disintegrate; reduce to powder by the action of water: as, to slake lime. Also slack.
9. To let loose; release.
10. To make slack or inactive; hence, to quench or extinguish, as fire, appease or assuage, as hunger or thirst, or mollify, as hatred: as, to slake one's hunger or thirst; to slake wrath.
11. n. A channel through a swamp or mud-flat.
12. n. Slime or mud.
13. To besmear; daub.
14. n. A slovenly or slabbery daub; a slight dabbing or bedaubing as with something soft and slabbery; a “lick.”
15. n. A name of various species of Algæ, chiefly marine and of the edible sorts, as Ulva Lactuca, U. latissima, and Porphyra laciniata: applied also to fresh-water species, as Enteromorpha and perhaps Conferva.

Wiktionary

1. v. Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts. [11th-17th c.]
2. v. To slacken; to become relaxed or loose. [11th-16th c.]
3. v. To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force. [14th-19th c.]
4. v. To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench. [from 14th c.]
5. v. To cool (something) with water or another liquid. [from 14th c.]

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To allay; to quench; to extinguish.
2. v. To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack.
3. v. To go out; to become extinct.
4. v. To abate; to become less decided.
5. v. To slacken; to become relaxed.
6. v. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make less active or intense
2. v. cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
3. v. satisfy (thirst)