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unslaked en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English slaked English unslaked From un- + slaked.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not yet slaked
    • With throats unslaked, with black lips baked: / We could not laugh nor wail. 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
    • His blood lust yet unslaked (pardon the pun), the duke has the duchess executed[…]. 1988 April 8, Tom Boeker, “The Duchess of Malfi”, in Chicago Reader: