English

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪk|-eɪk

Verb
en-verb|slak|ing

1. To go out; to become extinct.
2. To abate; to become less decided.
3. To slacken; to become relaxed.
4. To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.
5. To dash water on a hot surface to cool it.

#*Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water. Lawrence Durrell. Justine. Faber & Faber 1961 p.14

Derived terms
slaked

Anagrams
lakes
leaks

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