Slake

Definition

slake /sleÇk/ v ၁။ ေရငတ္ေျပေစသည္။ We slaked our thirst in a stream. ၂။ ( techn ) (usu passive) ထံုးကိုေရျဖင့္ ေဖာက္သည္။ slaked lime.

Examples

1. ‘There are no gloves
2. no pads
3. no iced tea to slake their thirst
4. no lemonade for breaks
5. and no hats to protect them from the sun.’
6. ‘With care he crouched and drank
7. filling a mouth that seemed always parched
8. striving to slake a thirst he could no longer quench.’
9. ‘Back at street level
10. I slaked my thirst at the Heartland Brewery bar on 5th Avenue
11. next to the Empire State.’
12. ‘A ‘brandy’ bar is being set up to slake their thirst.’
13. ‘There were no complaints as we sweated in the heat of the sun; our women slaking our thirst with pitchers of cool water.’
14. ‘But when people get tired by the roadside
15. there is no one to offer buttermilk to slake their thirst.’
16. ‘In a nearby lake a horse slakes its innocuous thirst as vehemently as the peasants.’
17. ‘As she was slaking her thirst
18. Serena asked the obvious question
19. ‘Why my help?’’
20. ‘‘In the evening they came to a water hole
21. ’ one caption read
22. ‘and there they slaked their ravening thirsts.’’
23. ‘Two flavours of cold drink powder
24. orange and lime
25. would have helped slake your thirst through the day.’
26. ‘We'd slake our thirst with an ice cold Coke - and in that moment
27. that Coke was our whole world… and that world was perfect.’
28. ‘Wiping out humanity is hard work
29. so she naturally paused to slake her thirst.’
30. ‘But slaking your thirst isn't always easy when you're exercising outdoors.’
31. ‘Last week's festival slaked the thirst of over 1
32. 000 visitors
33. real ale veterans and virgins alike descending on Troon for three days of eager boozing.’
34. ‘Dams were one solution
35. both to slake the thirst of livestock and to feed patches of green lucerne for ostriches.’
36. ‘It is a local drink and definitely slakes the thirst.’
37. ‘The ‘Bit of Red’ has a very special place for those who slake their thirst with a ‘bit of black’ in Harloes Bar.’
38. ‘Hampden stadium is the only venue on the European American football circuit where fans cannot slake their thirsts with alcohol.’
39. ‘Weary but compliant men and women slaked their thirst by taking slugs of water from plastic bottles.’
40. ‘They can clear away the fire in the body and slake the thirst.’