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Quench   /kwɛntʃ/   Listen
verb
Quench  v. t.  (past & past part. quenched; pres. part. quenching)  
1.
To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc. "Ere our blood shall quench that fire." "The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy."
2.
To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
Synonyms: To extinguish; still; stifle; allay; cool; check.


Quench  v. i.  To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool. (R.) "Dost thou think in time She will not quench!"





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"Quench" Quotes from Famous Books



... which suffering may be considered as instructive, a guide, perhaps, to lead us out of unhappy or shadowed regions into the regions of physical and, maybe, spiritual and moral well-being, and to quench the love of sin.[55] Mrs. Eddy sometimes speaks of Christ as the Saviour but if her system be pressed to a logical conclusion she must empty the word of all the associations which it has hitherto had and make it simply the equivalent of ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
... it into practice, recover Virginia, press her to my bosom and cherish her as so beautiful and loving a girl deserved to be cherished; but it must be almost incredible to every reader of my book that in one moment I could not only quench my own fire, but make it impossible to light it again. This, however, is the plain state ...
— The Fool Errant • Maurice Hewlett
... all precedent. "We dug out several wells, and each time had to wait a day or two till enough water flowed in for our cattle to quench ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne
... with love—yet eternal will be the distance, at the rate I go on: now fire, now ice, my soul is continually upon the hiss, as I may say. In vain, however, is the trial to quench—what, after all, ...
— Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9) • Samuel Richardson
... "without danger to yourself or others, quench your lust with many of the women who have come to the village on the occasion of the fete expressly for you and the like of you, and for God's sake leave in peace this noble damsel, and think of the great danger that you run, the evil that you ...
— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various


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