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Slake vs Smake - What's the difference?

slake | smake |

As verbs the difference between slake and smake

is that slake is while smake is to smack; taste.

As a noun smake is

a smack; taste; scent.

slake

English

Verb

(slak)
  • *Sir (c.1569-1626)
  • *:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
  • *:
  • *: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.
  • :
  • (label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
  • :

    • Derived terms

    * slaked * slake trough

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    smake

    English

    Verb

    (smak)
  • To smack; taste.
  • *1882 , Bricktop, The trip of the Sardine Club :
    • Even Bill Bitters could not find it in his heart to say a word against this moisture, and he actually smaked his lips, although he turned away lest someone should see him do it.
  • * 1893 , Margaret Sidney, Five little Peppers Midway :
    • Now, that's good," smaking his lips in a pleased way.
  • * 1918 , Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (U.S.), Locomotive engineers journal :
    • He smaked his lips in anticipation of the coming treat.
  • *1922 , Lucy Fox Robins Lang, Mrs. Lucy Robins, War Shadows :
    • It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.
  • * 2001 , James Joyce, Dubliners :
    • "And what about the address to the King?" said Mr. Lyons, after drinking and smaking his lips.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A smack; taste; scent.
  • * 1831 , Congressional edition:
    • The 15th we came to Hatorask, in thirty-six degrees and a terse, at four fadom, three leagues from the shore, where we might perceive a smake at the place where I left the colony, 1587."
  • * 1856 , Edward Augustus Bond, Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Russia at the close of the sixteenth century :
    • A smake there is in other things, but small purpose.
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