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Definition of the day : « quenches »

  • verb destroy, extinguish
  • verb satisfy, especially thirst
Example sentences :
  • But contempt is passionless; it does not catch, it quenches fire.
  • Extract from : « Pearls of Thought » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • Drink; it is the grandest cup which quenches the thirst of humanity.
  • Extract from : « The Insect » by Jules Michelet
  • It unlocks the cabinet of the womb and quenches the violence of fire.
  • Extract from : « Unicorns » by James Huneker
  • A body is said to be black when it absorbs or quenches a large proportion of all the rays of white light falling upon it.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • It quenches all the eagerness to hear in the three faces, each in its own degree.
  • Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
  • It quenches your thirstThat's the best of it.Improves your healthThat's the rest of it.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 » by Various
  • His passage kindles to unconsuming fires and quenches into living ashes.
  • Extract from : « The Rhythm of Life » by Alice Meynell
  • Pass a black ribbon through the colours of the spectrum; it quenches all of them.
  • Extract from : « Six Lectures on Light » by John Tyndall
  • To which Abraham replied: “Rather the water that quenches the fire.”
  • Extract from : « Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers » by W. A. Clouston
  • The sun obscures the lesser lights, and quenches even the moons light.
  • Extract from : « Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae' » by Geoffrey Chaucer