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Slaked vs Slaken - What's the difference?

slaked | slaken |

As verbs the difference between slaked and slaken

is that slaked is (slake) while slaken is .

As an adjective slaked

is allayed; quenched; extinguished; as, a slaked thirst.

slaked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Allayed; quenched; extinguished; as, a slaked thirst.
  • Mixed with water so that a true chemical combination has taken place; as, slaked lime.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (slake)

    • Anagrams

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    slaken

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Charles Warren Stoddard, title=Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was glad when we were very politely invited to get out of the train and walk a plank over a puddle that for a moment submerged the track; glad when we were advised to foot it over a trestle-bridge that sagged in the swift current of a swollen stream; and gladder still when our locomotive began to puff and blow and slaken its pace as we climbed up into the mouth of a ravine fragrant with the warm scents of summer--albeit we could boast but a solitary brace of cars, and these small ones, and not overcrowded at that. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Two Years Ago, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And so she swept in, with her arm round Lucia's waist; while Elsley stood looking after her, well enough satisfied with her reception of him, and only hoping that the stream of words would slaken after a while. " }}