slake

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To satisfy (thirst, or other desires).

   “slake the heavenly fire”

2. fiil To cool (something) with water or another liquid.

   “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 slaked with water.”

3. fiil To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.

   “The lime slakes.”

4. fiil To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.

   “to slake lime”

5. fiil Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts.
6. fiil To slacken; to become relaxed or loose.

   “When the body's strongest sinews slake.”

7. fiil To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force.
8. fiil To go out; to become extinct.

   “His flame did slake.”

9. fiil To besmear.
10. isim A sloppy mess.
11. isim A slack, a tidal wetland.

    “The slakes are waste lands bordering on the seashore, which are covered with water when the tide comes in. The word is common in Northumberland, where the slakes between the Mainland and Holy Island, are much frequented by sportsmen[…]”