Bon Mot: slake

slake \SLAYK\, transitive verb:

After a rather rough week, Foo was slaked into submission.

• To satisfy; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
• To cause to lessen; to make less active or intense; to moderate; as, slaking his anger.
• To cause (as lime) to heat and crumble by treatment with water.
• To become slaked; to crumble or disintegrate, as lime.
  
  Let's get to the root: Slake comes from Middle English slaken, "to become or render slack," hence "to abate," from Old English slacian, from slæc, "slack."