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quench
verb as in destroy, extinguish
Example Sentences
Are we not warmed by the same ultraviolet rays, quenched by the same pirated water, ensnared in the same gill net of freeways?
The duke was sent to Germany to cool his ardour, but the imposed distance failed to quench the flame.
“For a lot of people, a beverage is just to quench the thirst or get an energy boost with caffeine, so yeah maybe the tea behind it isn’t really that important for them.”
I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.
On the other hand, they wrote, allowing potentially defective drugs to be widely used is akin to "drinking poison to quench thirst".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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