Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: quench
IPA transcription: [kw'ɛntʃ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: quench, slake, allay, assuage
    Meaning: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
Usage examples
  • Still, fire isn't so easy to quench.
  • Onawandah cooked birds for her to eat, and made a pleasant drink of the wild-raspberry leaves to quench her thirst.
  • He had to feed his cylinder continually; and he even began to find that he had not enough to quench the thirst of his party.
  • Her respect for Teddy was gradually increasing, though nothing seemed to quench her self-assertion and independence of thought and action.
  • Manstin grew thirsty, but there was no water in the small dwelling. Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.
  • But her mind was in a strange state of excitement, partly from the presence of a new sense of love, the pleasure of which all the atmosphere of grief into which it grew could not totally quench.
  • But when the Titans attempted to scale the heaven, this river had the ill luck to quench their thirst, and Jupiter to punish even the waters of the river for abetting his enemies, turned its course aside into the under world where its waves, slow-moving and filthy, lost themselves in Styx, the largest of all the rivers of Hades, which ran round Pluto's gloomy kingdom no less than nine times.