Definitions
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- verb physics To reverse the effects of a previous
quenching operation
Etymologies
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un- + quench
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Examples
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Garrison always became excited during our discussions, and the others frequently did; but Whittier, in whose big heart the love of his fellow-man burned as unquench - ably as in any heart there, always preserved his ex - quisite tranquillity.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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And the perpetuity and mifery of her o - verthrow, never to revive any more, was reprefented by the emblem of horrible fmoke from the unquench - able fire that confumed her, as incefiantly afcending from her ruins to an endiefs eternity.
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