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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
slake .
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Examples
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And Viz slakes my thirst with the second volume of Oishinbo, the standard-bearer of culinary manga.
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On the way, it powers the world's biggest hydro-electric scheme, slakes the thirst of 400 million people and serves as a rubbish dump for a growing number of supercities, factories, farms and ships.
UK's shifting population placing environment under intense strain 2011
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And Viz slakes my thirst with the second volume of Oishinbo, the standard-bearer of culinary manga.
Upcoming 3/25/2009 2009
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And Viz slakes my thirst with the second volume of Oishinbo, the standard-bearer of culinary manga.
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Or is it because Vick is just so damn incredible on the field, he slakes our national thirsts for both escapism and excellence?
Dave Zirin: The Top Seven 'Edge of Sports' Moments of 2010 Dave Zirin 2010
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Take advantage of the Valentine's Day specials (ten percent off when you mention Fenris Badwulf) and enjoy the day of love while some little college strumpet slakes the lust of the smelly, hairy primate in your life.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Non-OPEC crude supply, which slakes 60% of daily consumption globally, is still expected to contract by 100,000 barrels a day to 50.5 million barrels a day in 2009.
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"If it doesn't snow in the north (where the water melt from the Sierras slakes the state's thirst) or if the national economy goes south, then whoever is governor is screwed."
Nathan Gardels: California's Crisis of Consumer Democracy 2009
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From the grinning forebears who preached the gospel of trickle down economics, our democratic landscape has been reduced to a dystopian dust bowl; the power mad corporocrats who mock human hope and dangle genetically manipulated carrots in front of the burdened herd have succeeded in creating a world dreamt of by the half of the human psyche which slakes its thirst on blood and revels in human failure.
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Produced by Terry Date (Soundgarden, Unearth), this Bad Brains clone meets a quasi-Fishbone hybrid, has in fact mulled over their influences and dropped a 4-track ep that somewhat slakes your thirst for a modern day hero in the Reggae-Rock genre.
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