Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That cannot be quenched or repressed; inextinguishable: as, quenchless fire or fury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable.
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- adjective That cannot be
quenched ;unquenchable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to quench
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Examples
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I had a chance to talk recently with Dr. Sarah B. Warren, a psychologist and addiction specialist, who believes the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico may be that wake up call we need that pushes us to take the hard steps necessary to overcome our quenchless thirst for oil.
Wendy Gordon: The Gulf Spill: Hitting Bottom in Our Addiction to Oil 2010
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I had a chance to talk recently with Dr. Sarah B. Warren, a psychologist and addiction specialist, who believes the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico may be that wake up call we need that pushes us to take the hard steps necessary to overcome our quenchless thirst for oil.
Wendy Gordon: The Gulf Spill: Hitting Bottom in Our Addiction to Oil 2010
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On the one hand, we depend on energy corporations to drive the economy, and to slake America's quenchless thirst for cheap, reliable fuel.
Elizabeth Bisbee Silber: Obama, the Oil Spill and the American Psyche 2010
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Furthermore, "these [fragments] were destined to a noble lot ... to light another land, the quenchless ray that soon shall gloriously expand"
The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece 2006
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They circulate in and out of the kitchen with their quenchless thirst and bottomless bellies.
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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One listening for cries of fear or pleas of mercy would have heard none; men, women or children, they died slashing and clawing, their last gasp a sob of fury, or a snarl of quenchless hatred.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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All brandishing their162 brands of quenchless fire,
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Once more I write with the splendours of the quenchless fires in sight, and the usual world seems twilight and commonplace by the fierce glare of Halemaumau, and the fitful glare of the other and loftier flame, which is burning ten thousand feet higher in lonely
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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The "fire/And motion of the soul" of the Byronic hero is "quenchless evermore" and "Preys upon high adventure"
Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture 2002
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Precaution however was ineffectual, for their thirst was quenchless.
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A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 41
July 25, 2008