slake
verb (used with object)
to allay (thirst, desire, wrath, etc.) by satisfying.
have slaked
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present perfectof slake.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 all the water in all the cool streams of the earth would have slaked the thirst of his wound.
From Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Having worked at Jarndyce and Jarndyce like a galley slave, I have slaked my thirst for the law and satisfied myself that I shouldn't like it.
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Now I have slaked my thirst for confession by telling you.
From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan
First Ilustrado: Son of Arion, from Castalia's fount Where melody divine doth bubble forth, Thou must thy thirst have slaked with copious drafts For gods alone inspire such sounds divine.
From 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts by Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)
Not a word, Don Pedro, not a word, until you and your friends have slaked your thirst with draughts of our native wine.
From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober
