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The other leaves specialize in absorbing water, to slake a tree’s thirst.

A Long Island pioneer winery brings us a top-notch crisp and juicy rosé to slake our thirst and cut through the summer’s heat.

Using them, nest fronds can share their water, slaking the thirst of neighboring strap fronds.

Previous research by other scientists found networks of roots running throughout the colony, which means that nest fronds have the ability to slake strap fronds’ thirst.

There’s also a page of wineries that will send us wines and schedule online virtual tastings to slake our thirst and whet our appetites for when we can get there in person.

The fevered mules plunged in headlong and drank greedily; the riders were perforce obliged to slake their thirst after them.

An old gray-headed man tottered forward to slake his burning thirst.

In good sooth ye do,” cried Biarne, with a laugh; “a mouse could hardly slake his thirst with all that you have yet imbibed.

Would I be the tiger, blind with desire of blood leaping at the wild-deer's throat, to slake a cruel thirst?

The sun was excessively hot, and at every rivulet that I crossed I stopped to slake my thirst.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slake, such as: appease, assuage, quench, abate, allay, and compose.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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