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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
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(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: