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quenches

verb as in satisfy, especially thirst

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But quenches -- the sudden, destructive events wherein a part of the material loses superconductivity -- are a major barrier to their deployment.

Listening to KGAY, he added, quenches “a desire for a sense of connection that was in person, that was live and public.”

There is, legitimately, no item on earth that quenches and refreshes like good ol' water — especially when you've eaten something especially heavy or you've accidentally eaten the equivalent of your body weight in candy.

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It’s home to fishers and boats, feeds rich farmlands, powers turbines and quenches local populations across its banks and delta.

The river, which cascades from the Rockies down to the deserts of the Southwest, quenches the thirst of 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico and sustains a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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