Slake (verb)
slay-k
To quench one’s thirst
Old English slacian ‘become less eager’, also ‘slacken’, from the adjective slæc ‘slack’; compare with Dutch slaken ‘diminish, relax’.
Example sentences
“They would slake their thirst at the watering hole each evening.”
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