What is another word for quenching?

Pronunciation: [kwˈɛnt͡ʃɪŋ] (IPA)

Quenching is the process of extinguishing or suppressing something, such as thirst or a flame. There are many synonyms for the word quenching, including satisfy, satiate, ease, relieve, pacify, soothe, appease and allay. Each of these words describes a different type of quenching, but they all involve satisfying a need or desire in some way. For example, satisfying thirst (quenching) is similar to relieving pain or easing anxiety. Whether it's quenching physical or emotional needs, these synonyms can help convey the essence of what quenching means. No matter what word you choose, the important thing is to make sure you communicate effectively and clearly.

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Usage examples for Quenching

But then the problem was not so difficult as telling this live girl how she came to be one-telling her, that is, without poisoning her life and shrouding her heart in a fog as dense as the one that was going to make the street-lamps outside futile when night should come to help it-telling her without dashing the irresistible glee of those eyebrows and quenching the smile that opened the casket of pearls that all who knew her thought of her by.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
After quenching my thirst and filling my canteen, I mounted my favorite animal, and rode back to camp, the others following.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
Under the quenching chill of despair his pulse-beat had become as sluggish as the unfed blaze, and the days that followed had called for exertions which would have taxed greater reserves of vitality.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck

Famous quotes with Quenching

  • Great heed has to be taken about the fact that most of us desire to remain unconscious: felicity (in eyes of common man) is rapture and rapture seems a quenching of awareness reduced to the awareness of its obliteration... Sex and Religion are centred on it both and I dare say that their convenience will in future be to join instead of rivalling, as they are wont to do, obscenity will be religious as it was long ago.
    Albert Caraco
  • "The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams."
    Robert E. Howard
  • That daily the night falls; that over stresses and torments, cares and sorrows the blessing of sleep unfolds, stilling and quenching them; that every anew this draught of refreshment and lethe is offered to our parching lips, ever after the battle this mildness laves our shaking limbs, that from it, purified from sweat and dust and blood, strengthened, renewed, rejuvenated, almost innocent once more, almost with pristine courage and zeal we may go forth again — these I hold to be the benignest, the most moving of all the great facts of life.
    Thomas Mann
  • Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.
    Elizabeth Gaskell

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