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slake
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synonyms: adipsous???
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Definition:1. to quench2. to moderate3. to chemically combine lime with water, as with concrete
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But it was impossible, somehow, to feel any humanity in the things. Only my disinclination to leave Weena, and a persuasion that if I began to slake my thirst for murder my Time Machine might suffer, restrained me from going straight down the gallery and killing the brutes I heard.
H.G. Wells. The Time Machine
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Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to slake his burning thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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Going round a hole where the workmen were slaking lime, he stood still with the architect and began talking rather warmly.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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