Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being slaked or quenched; inextinguishable; insatiable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being slaked.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not capable of being
slaked .
Etymologies
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slake + -less
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Examples
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Not for pinball, as before, but for the slakeless thirst of the meter.
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The slakeless thirst still clung to me; and water, instead of allaying it, seemed only to increase its intensity.
Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers Various 1918
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I was tortured with a slakeless thirst that grew fiercer as I gazed on the flowing water.
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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But, I fear, the spirit of adventure -- its thirst -- is within me slakeless.
The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850
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