unslaked

English

Etymology

From un- + slaked.

Adjective

unslaked (not comparable)

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

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