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Aslake vs Ashake - What's the difference?

aslake | ashake |

As a verb aslake

is (transitive|intransitive|rare|or|obsolete) to abate; diminish.

As an adjective ashake is

shaking, aquiver.

aslake

English

Verb

(aslak)
  • (transitive, intransitive, rare, or, obsolete) To abate; diminish.
  • (transitive, intransitive, rare, or, obsolete) To moderate; mitigate; appease; satisfy.
    • The beast that prowls about in search of blood, / Or reptile that within the treacherous brake / Waits for the prey, upcoiled, its hunger to aslake .'' ? Southey, ''Paraguay .

    ashake

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • shaking, aquiver
  • * {{quote-book, year=1869, author=R. D. Blackmore, title=Lorna Doone, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Dunkery Beacon," whispered John, so close into my ear, that I felt his lips and teeth ashake ; "dursn't fire it now except to show the Doones way home again, since the naight as they went up and throwed the watchmen atop of it. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Stanley John Weyman, title=The Castle Inn, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then you'll buy her dear,' cried my lady, ashake with rage. ' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=D. H. Lawrence, title=Amores, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=AT THE WINDOW THE pine-trees bend to listen to the autumn wind as it mutters Something which sets the black poplars ashake with hysterical laughter; While slowly the house of day is closing its eastern shutters. }}