"Slaking" is a word in ENGLISH
of Slake
He did touch people's lives, the lives of strangers, in an entirely unanticipated way. It was they who really mourned him - or what they thought was him - with a grief that was no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.
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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces his altitude and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field.""You must work in Technical Support," says the balloonist."I do," replies the man. "How did you know?""Well" says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but completely useless."The man below says: "You must be in management.""I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?""Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're still in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."
A substance which does not contain water as such, but has its constituents (hydrogen, oxygen, hydroxyl) so arranged that water …
Read the complete definitionTo end; to cease; to desist; to slake.
Read the complete definitionTo lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake; as, lime slacks.
Read the complete definitionTo deprive of cohesion by combining chemically with water; to slake; as, to slack lime.
Read the complete definitionTo mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
Read the complete definitionTo go out; to become extinct.
Read the complete definitionTo slacken; to become relaxed.
Read the complete definitionTo abate; to become less decided.
Read the complete definitionTo allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
Read the complete definitionTo become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.
Read the complete definitionof Slake
Read the complete definitionNot capable of being slaked.
Read the complete definitionTo quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
Read the complete definitionNot slaked; unslacked; as, an unslaked thirst; unslaked lime.
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