SLAKE


Meaning of SLAKE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

thirst

Before continuing we slaked thirsts with warm water from our own bottles - we couldn't find any streams.

We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst .

It is diverted hundreds of miles along aqueducts to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Before continuing we slaked thirsts with warm water from our own bottles - we couldn't find any streams.

Dessert selections at San Remo are modest but provide ample opportunity to slake that end-of-the-meal sweet craving.

He had managed to slake her lust.

My thirst for knowledge had been slaked, surpassed by a hunger for cash.

The trouble was that George had a needling propensity for deception that could not be slaked.

We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.

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