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
And those who were curious for a view into Montag’s life had endless ways to slake that appetite, only one of them a weekly cable-TV reality show.
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Whatever the controversy, these Thanksgiving stories will slake your appetite!
—JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Asia London Palomba is a Travel + Leisure writer from Rome who travels internationally several times a year to visit her family in Italy or to slake her wanderlust in various European and Asian countries.
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2024
Still, no concession from the British government is likely to slake the nationalists' thirst for a referendum.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012
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Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Whatever the controversy, these Thanksgiving stories will slake your appetite!
—JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
Asia London Palomba is a Travel + Leisure writer from Rome who travels internationally several times a year to visit her family in Italy or to slake her wanderlust in various European and Asian countries.
—Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2024
Still, no concession from the British government is likely to slake the nationalists' thirst for a referendum.
—Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2012
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slake
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To satisfy presidential demands, field offices are directed to meet new daily arrest quotas—75 arrests per office—raising agency-wide targets to 1,200–1,500 arrests per day, up from only about a few hundred.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
15 July 2025
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Chickpea Cookie Dough Chickpea cookie dough is high in protein and sure to satisfy a craving for sweetness.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
15 July 2025
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From restoring elasticity to quenching dryness and nourishing the skin with essential vitamins and minerals, the best body oils can make everything below the neck supple, satiny, and ready to shine.—
Jenny Berg,
Vogue,
28 June 2025
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California’s existing groundwater infrastructure may fail to quench the state’s thirst in an increasingly arid future, even as officials celebrate widespread conservation achievements, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) warned on Tuesday.—
Sharon Udasin,
The Hill,
24 June 2025
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“Slake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slake. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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