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单词 slake
释义
slakeslake /sleɪk/ verb [transitive] literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINslake
Origin:
Old English slacian ‘to slacken’, from sleac; SLACK1
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
slake
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyslake
he, she, itslakes
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyslaked
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave slaked
he, she, ithas slaked
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad slaked
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill slake
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have slaked
Continuous Form
PresentIam slaking
he, she, itis slaking
you, we, theyare slaking
PastI, he, she, itwas slaking
you, we, theywere slaking
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been slaking
he, she, ithas been slaking
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been slaking
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be slaking
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been slaking
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Before continuing we slaked thirsts with warm water from our own bottles - we couldn't find any streams.
  • Dessert selections at San Remo are modest but provide ample opportunity to slake that end-of-the-meal sweet craving.
  • He had managed to slake her lust.
  • My thirst for knowledge had been slaked, surpassed by a hunger for cash.
  • The trouble was that George had a needling propensity for deception that could not be slaked.
  • We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Before continuing we slaked thirsts with warm water from our own bottles - we couldn't find any streams.· We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.· It is diverted hundreds of miles along aqueducts to slake the thirst of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • We chewed salted sunflower seeds, and slaked our thirst.
slake a desire/craving etc
1slake your thirst to drink so that you are not thirsty anymore2 slake a desire/craving etc to satisfy a desire etc
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