as in to satisfy
to put a complete end to (a physical need or desire)
a harrowing experience while mountain climbing has largely slaked my desire for high adventure
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Recent Examples of slake
All of that winter moisture had simply sunken or slaked the thirsty vegetation, and vanished.
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Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
China’s impressive portfolio of developmental accomplishments has never been able to fully slake this longing of party leaders to win the acceptance and respect of the very countries that, because of their censoriousness, China simultaneously treats as adversaries.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2022
While fans continue the seemingly interminable wait for the proper follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream, The Cure will slake their thirst for new music in October with the release of live versions of two new songs.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2024
Delegates leaving the Fiserv Forum at the end of a marathon session, aglow in their souls but parched in their throats, had to travel less than fifty yards before reaching the oasis of a booth, where thirsts could be slaked with a cooling draft of Lakefront Hazy Rabbit.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
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Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
China’s impressive portfolio of developmental accomplishments has never been able to fully slake this longing of party leaders to win the acceptance and respect of the very countries that, because of their censoriousness, China simultaneously treats as adversaries.
—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2022
While fans continue the seemingly interminable wait for the proper follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream, The Cure will slake their thirst for new music in October with the release of live versions of two new songs.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 Aug. 2024
Delegates leaving the Fiserv Forum at the end of a marathon session, aglow in their souls but parched in their throats, had to travel less than fifty yards before reaching the oasis of a booth, where thirsts could be slaked with a cooling draft of Lakefront Hazy Rabbit.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024
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“Slake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slake. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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