Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being quenched or extinguished.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being quenched.

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  • adjective Able to be quenched.

Etymologies

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quench +‎ -able

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Examples

  • "The second interesting thing is that it's quenchable, meaning that when we release the pressure the alloy persists.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2009

  • To have a passion for something or someone is to undergo a powerful attraction, hard to resist, and quenchable only by something stronger than and incompatible with it.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Mike L 2007

  • To have a passion for something or someone is to undergo a powerful attraction, hard to resist, and quenchable only by something stronger than and incompatible with it.

    The passion and the patience Mike L 2007

  • Assuredly, fire is borne aloft, is without a soul, is easily quenchable and corruptible; but the sun is orbicular and animate, eternal and imperishable.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • Whatever group one belongs to, one belongs to it as an individual, and this individuality is not quenchable, except through death, or inauthenticity.

    Watsuji Tetsurô Carter, Robert 2004

  • We represent also ordnance and instruments of war and engines of all kinds; and likewise new mixtures and compositions of gunpowder, wild – fires burning in water and un quenchable, also fire – works of all variety, both for pleasure and use.

    The New Atlantis 2002

  • His pallid, sharp-featured face, and a strange brilliancy in his eyes, told me that either his physical or his mental being hid an underground fire, perhaps no longer quenchable.

    The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

  • Stop it, ye Constitutional Patriots; fire itself is quenchable, yet only quenchable at first!

    The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Cheap, unbreakable and quenchable, the Bandit wines are perfectly priced for these troubled times.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories Kelly J. Hayes Aspen Times Weekly 2010

  • As we all know I have an un-quenchable thirst for learning about my guest's past and the path taken to get them to where they are today.

    The Web 2.0 Show ethan 2010

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