Soften vs Slake - What's the difference?
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To make something soft or softer.
To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up ).
To make less harsh
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To become soft or softer
*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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Soften is a related term of slake.
As verbs the difference between soften and slake
is that soften is to make something soft or softer while slake is .soften
English
Verb
(en verb)- Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.
- Before the invasion, we softened up the enemy with the artillery.
- Having second thoughts, I softened my criticism.
- The butter softened as it warmed up.