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quenched

/kwench/US // kwɛntʃ //UK // (kwɛntʃ) //

淬火,熄灭,熄灭的,淬火的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to slake, satisfy, or allay.
    • : to put out or extinguish.
    • : to cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.
    • : to subdue or destroy; overcome; quell: to quench an uprising.
    • : Electronics. to terminate by application of a voltage.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdestroy, extinguish
Forms: quenches

Examples

  • It’s an increasingly precarious resource for the over 40 million people it quenches, which include the cities of San Diego and Los Angeles, as long-term climate change threatens to destabilize the regular snowpack that feeds it.

  • The British retreated after a huge storm struck the city — perhaps a hurricane or a tornado — quenching the fires.

  • Kosas’s ever so slightly sticky formula is loaded with ultra-moisturizing hyaluronic acid, so it wears tenaciously under a neck tube or mask and leaves lips noticeably more quenched than the average wax stick.

  • No one needs to prove to you that a glass of water will quench your thirst, because everyone has experienced that result firsthand.

  • With a good hydration bladder in your pack, you’ll be ready to get outside without worrying about quenching your thirst.

  • Luckily, ‘Doldo’ from the Second City Network has arrived to quench their thirsts, and have a laugh at their expense.

  • Her father runs an antique store and frequently sends the girls goods to quench the Berlin vintage drought.

  • The bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

  • One copy was quite able to quench the thirst for "keeping up," and was often read aloud in the intervals between cards.

  • "It would be idle," came Wilding's icy voice to quench the gleam of hope kindling anew in Richard's breast.

  • The water that was used to quench the fire being pumped into the river Idria, all the fish died excepting the eels.

  • Somehow this question seemed to quench the teacher of mathematics' good spirits.