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Slake vs Aslake - What's the difference?

slake | aslake |

As verbs the difference between slake and aslake

is that slake is of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts while aslake is to abate; diminish.

slake

English

Verb

(slak)
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
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  • *:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
  • To go out; to become extinct.
  • *(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
  • *:His flame did slake .
  • (label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
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  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:slake the heavenly fire
  • (label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
  • *1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.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 slaked with water.
  • (label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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  • (label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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    • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

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    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 .