SLAKE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does slake mean? 

• SLAKE (verb)
  The verb SLAKE has 3 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: SLAKE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAKE (verb)

Meaning:

Satisfy (thirst)

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Synonyms:

quench; slake; allay; assuage

Context example:

The cold water quenched his thirst

Hypernyms (to "slake" is one way to...):

fill; fulfil; fulfill; meet; satisfy (fill or meet a want or need)

"Slake" entails doing...:

consume; have; ingest; take; take in (serve oneself to, or consume regularly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Make less active or intense

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

abate; slake; slack

Hypernyms (to "slake" is one way to...):

decrease; lessen; minify (make smaller)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

slake; slack

Context example:

slack lime

Hypernyms (to "slake" is one way to...):

hydrate (cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slake"):

air-slake (alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something