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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To quench.

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Examples

  • Trouble is, the temp is gonna freeze around a 100 for the next unshuffling of Doppler knows how many days, enough that it's causing all the teevee celebrity heads to squench their faces all serious and start warning us about the dangers of hot weather.

    Holy Hell Arrives Today The Daily Growler 2006

  • "I only wanted," replied the trembling Marchioness, "to know where the key of the meat-safe was hid -- that was all; and I wouldn't have taken much if I had found it -- only enough to squench my hunger."

    Ten Girls from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser

  • "Uncle Issy," asked Jim Lewarne, lurching up, "I durstn 'g-glint over my shoulder -- but wud' ee mind tellin 'me if th' old woman's lookin 'this way -- afore I squench my thirst?"

    I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "I only wanted," replied the trembling Marchioness, "to know where the key of the safe was hid; that was all; and I wouldn't have taken much if I had found it -- only enough to squench my hunger."

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885

  • _He_ said it was me as stared at him -- the damn fool not knowin 'that I was only a-tryin' to squench his beastly owlin 'by lookin' steady at him; an 'he said he'd settle me ef I kep' on.

    In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

  • I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak!

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

  • I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak!

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • I split the everlasting rocks with my glance, and I squench the thunder when I speak!

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • 'I only wanted,' replied the trembling Marchioness, 'to know where the key of the safe was hid; that was all; and I wouldn't have taken much, if I had found it -- only enough to squench my hunger.'

    The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

  • "If you're thirsty, vy don't you say so and squench it, old boy?"

    The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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