slake in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

slake in the PONS Dictionary

slake Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to slake one's thirst
placare la sete

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.
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Indeed, water with its power to cleanse, purify and slake the thirst has a particularly rich symbolic meaning in most religious traditions.
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If the quicklime is slaked with an excess of water then putty or slurry is produced.
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For plastering, he is using hydraulic lime, which is in the process of being slaked.
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Both methods of slaking the hunger have their pros and cons.
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It consists primarily of calcium hydroxide which is derived by slaking quicklime (calcium oxide), and may contain up to 5% of other ingredients.
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And people who slake themselves with gallons of olive oil live for aeons.
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The large number of the thirsty seekers of knowledge who slaked their thirst from this ocean of sciences is sui generis.
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It is slaked enough to convert the calcium oxide to calcium hydroxide but not with sufficient water to react with the dicalcium silicate.
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Thirst also began taking its deadly toll - the siege camp contained but a single small well, sufficient to slake only about one hundred men per day.
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