Slake

Verb
slaked with water.
 * 1)  Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
 * 2)  To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.
 * 3)  To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force.
 * 4) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XVIII:
 * ‘Sir Launcelot, I se and fele dayly that youre love begynnyth to slake, for ye have no joy to be in my presence, but ever ye ar oute of thys courte [...].’
 * 1)  To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench.
 * 2)  To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
 * 3) * 1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, page 14
 * Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements
 * Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements

Thesaurus
abate, allay, alleviate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, bate, benumb, cloy, cram, cushion, deaden, deaden the pain, diminish, dull, ease, ease matters, ease off, ease up, engorge, feast, feed, fill, fill up, foment, fulfill, give relief, glut, gorge, gratify, jade, lay, lessen, let down, let up, loose, loosen, lull, mitigate, mollify, numb, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pad, pall, palliate, poultice, pour balm into, pour oil on, quench, reduce, regale, relax, relieve, remit, salve, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, soften, soothe, stuff, stupe, subdue, supersaturate, surfeit, unbend, unbrace, unstrain, unstring

Etymology
From slaken:, from  sleacian:, from sleac:.

Translations

 * Spanish: apagar


 * Spanish: apagar


 * Spanish: apagar


 * Spanish: apagar


 * Spanish: apagar

Derived terms

 * slaked

Anagrams

 * lakes, Lakes
 * LASEK
 * leaks