slake
verb (used with object)
to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
has slaked
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present perfectof slake (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Not even a pandemic has slaked the imperative to drive workers harder.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2020
Though I’ll probably get sick later, for the present moment it has slaked my thirst.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2016
By the time that the schoolmaster's donkey has slaked her thirst and the neighbors have taken their provision for the day, the basin is dry.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
When the lime has slaked sufficiently, add water to bring it to a thick milk, or to a certain number of gallons.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
But since then, and even since 1845, the date of the last volume, the thirst for antiquarian research has slaked itself at newly discovered sources.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
