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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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.
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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
The revelation may slake readers’ presumed thirst for melodrama.
—Jonathan Stevenson, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2019
This week, slake your thirst with a citrusy, refreshing white from Sicily and rosés from Provence and California.
—Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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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
The revelation may slake readers’ presumed thirst for melodrama.
—Jonathan Stevenson, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2019
This week, slake your thirst with a citrusy, refreshing white from Sicily and rosés from Provence and California.
—Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
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“Slake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slake. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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