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Webster 1913 Edition

Aslake

A-slake′

(ȧ-slāk′)
,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[AS.
āslacian
,
slacian
, to slacken. Cf.
Slake
.]
To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.
[Archaic]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Aslake

ASLA'KE

,
Verb.
T.
[See Slack.]
To remit; to slacken. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024

aslake

aslake

English

Verb

aslake ‎(third-person singular simple present aslakes, present participle aslaking, simple past and past participle aslaked)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, rare or obsolete) To abate; diminish.
  2. (transitive, intransitive, rare or obsolete) To moderate; mitigate; appease; satisfy.
    The beast that prowls about in search of blood, / Or reptile that within the treacherous brake / Waits for the prey, upcoiled, its hunger to aslake. ― Southey, Paraguay.

Translations

Etymology

From Middle English aslaken, from Old English āslacian ‎(“to become slack, decline, diminish, grow tired, make slack, loosen, relax, dissolve”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- ‎(“out”) + *slakōną ‎(“to become useless, weak, or slow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lēg- ‎(“soft, weak”), equivalent to a- +‎ slake. Cognate with Dutch slaken ‎(“to heave”), Swedish sloka ‎(“to wilt, droop”), Danish slukke ‎(“to quench, allay, slake”). More at slake.

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