AIR-SLAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does air-slake mean? 

• AIR-SLAKE (verb)
  The verb AIR-SLAKE has 1 sense:

1. alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate

  Familiarity information: AIR-SLAKE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIR-SLAKE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Alter by exposure to air with conversion at least in part to a carbonate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

air-slake lime

Hypernyms (to "air-slake" is one way to...):

slack; slake (cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something