Unslaked

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not yet slaked not-comparable

    "With throats unslaked, with black lips baked: / We could not laugh nor wail."

Example

More examples

"Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town. Night's sheltering shadow flutters dark around us."

Etymology

From un- + slaked.

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