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"ref": "1740, John Dyer, “The Ruins of Rome. A Poem.”, in Poems. … Viz. I. Grongar Hill. II. The Ruins of Rome. III. The Fleece, in Four Books, London: Printed by John Hughs, for Messrs. R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1759, →OCLC, pages 42–43",
"text": "Tyrian garbs, / Neptunian Albion's high teſtaceous food [i.e., oysters], / And flavour'd Chian wines with incenſe fum'd / To ſlake Patrician thirſt: for theſe, their rights / In the vile ſtreets they proſtitute to ſale; / Their ancient rights, their dignities, their laws, / Their native glorious freedom.",
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"ref": "1923, Liam O'Flaherty, “Saturday”, in Thy Neighbour's Wife, 1st paperback edition, Wolfhound Press, page 214",
"text": "The booths of the publicans gazed shamelessly at the sun, with two empty porter barrels as supports at their doors, ready to smile at their clients with their seductive roundness, ready to lure the thirsty islanders into the gloomy recesses beneath the canvas, where Mulligan's assistant or Mrs Moroney's assistant would hand out frothy pints of porter and glistening tumblers of whisky to slake the thirst and set the blood tingling.",
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"ref": "1991, David Koulack, To catch a dream: explorations of dreaming, page 98",
"text": "In that study, some of the subjects had dreams in which they were slaking their thirst, very much like the dreams of convenience Freud described.",
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"ref": "2017, Jason Hickel, The Divide […], London: William Heinemann",
"text": "Europeans’ labour requirements in the New World were also slaked by slaves from Africa.",
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{
"ref": "2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75",
"text": "After watching people downing drink on the train, I am in need of slaking my own thirst, so I pop into the station's Centurion Bar.",
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"To satisfy (thirst, or other desires)."
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"(transitive) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires)."
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"ref": "1961, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, page 14",
"text": "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.",
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"text": "The lime slakes.",
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"(intransitive) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to become less energetic, to slacken in one's efforts."
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"ref": "1595, John Davies, Orchestra",
"text": "When the body's strongest sinews slake.",
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"To slacken; to become relaxed or loose."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To slacken; to become relaxed or loose."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To become less intense; to weaken, decrease in force."
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"ref": "1613, William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals",
"text": "His flame did slake.",
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"lang": "Armenian",
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"word": "հագեցնել"
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"word": "étancher"
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"note": "of thirst",
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"word": "zufriedenstellen"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"word": "csillapít"
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"word": "enyhít"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "saciar"
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"word": "jäähdyttää"
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"word": "abkühlen"
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"word": "hűt"
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"word": "apagar"
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"word": "extinguir"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.