slake
/sleɪk/
US pronunciation
American sound/sleɪk/
slake
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> slake
Myanmar meaning
ပြေပျောက်စေသည် (ရေငတ်ခြင်း ၊ ဆန္ဒ)။ မဖောက်ထုံးကို ရေနှင့် ရောစပ်၍ ဖောက်သည်။
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- ‘There are no gloves, no pads, no iced tea to slake their thirst, no lemonade for breaks, and no hats to protect them from the sun.’
- ‘With care he crouched and drank, filling a mouth that seemed always parched, striving to slake a thirst he could no longer quench.’
- ‘Back at street level, I slaked my thirst at the Heartland Brewery bar on 5th Avenue, next to the Empire State.’
- ‘A ‘brandy’ bar is being set up to slake their thirst.’
- ‘There were no complaints as we sweated in the heat of the sun; our women slaking our thirst with pitchers of cool water.’
- ‘But when people get tired by the roadside, there is no one to offer buttermilk to slake their thirst.’
- ‘In a nearby lake a horse slakes its innocuous thirst as vehemently as the peasants.’
- ‘As she was slaking her thirst, Serena asked the obvious question, ‘Why my help?’’
- ‘‘In the evening they came to a water hole, ’ one caption read, ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’’
- ‘Two flavours of cold drink powder, orange and lime, would have helped slake your thirst through the day.’
- ‘We'd slake our thirst with an ice cold Coke - and in that moment, that Coke was our whole world… and that world was perfect.’
- ‘Wiping out humanity is hard work, so she naturally paused to slake her thirst.’
- ‘But slaking your thirst isn't always easy when you're exercising outdoors.’
- ‘Last week's festival slaked the thirst of over 1, 000 visitors, real ale veterans and virgins alike descending on Troon for three days of eager boozing.’
- ‘Dams were one solution, both to slake the thirst of livestock and to feed patches of green lucerne for ostriches.’
- ‘It is a local drink and definitely slakes the thirst.’
- ‘The ‘Bit of Red’ has a very special place for those who slake their thirst with a ‘bit of black’ in Harloes Bar.’
- ‘Hampden stadium is the only venue on the European American football circuit where fans cannot slake their thirsts with alcohol.’
- ‘Weary but compliant men and women slaked their thirst by taking slugs of water from plastic bottles.’
- ‘They can clear away the fire in the body and slake the thirst.’
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