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Meanings of quench in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "allay"
Examples for "allay"
1
I believe this will reduce crime and allay public concern for safety.
2
She also sought to allay concerns of potential food and fuel shortages.
3
Perhaps the editor would address this burning question, and allay my fears.
4
A strong manufacturing number could allay persistent fears about slowing global demand.
5
Strong factory data for November failed to allay concerns about economic growth.
1
Being able to show good governance structures will help assuage such fears.
2
Therefore it does not assuage bodily pain, which is in the senses.
3
And, I suppose, also to assuage my own personal sense of guilt.
4
To assuage that unhappiness he had taken a considerable quantity of drink.
5
Even this wholesale massacre did not assuage the wrath of the corsair.
1
The slake-moth wheeled nervously over the dangerous city and headed for home.
2
They were equipped specifically to defend against slake-moths, in case of escapes.
3
But to move quickly, he realized, was to risk the slake-moth's attention.
4
That way, they kept the slake-moth behind them, visible in the mirrors.
5
They did not move fast, and the slake-moth did not seem concerned.
Usage of quench in английском
1
No: the river should wash the blood away and quench the fire.
2
Nick wished he could find some water, something to quench the burning.
3
Piecemeal firefighting may not quench the firestorm threatening to engulf the continent.
4
He does not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.
5
The bruised reed he will not break, nor quench the smoking flax.
6
He would not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.
7
He'd quench his thirst before an engagement with gunpowder mixed in brandy.
8
Thus even death doth not quench the influence of a good life.
9
One of the men then asked for water to quench his thirst.
10
She could not quench in her husband's bosom the thirst of gold.
11
The juice of the cactus allayed, but did not quench, their thirst.
12
People will even pay you to quench your thirst on their bodies.
13
But when an old house is burning nothing will quench the fire.
14
They who resist it, quench it, and this to their own condemnation.
15
We forgot the tortoise, and dashed forward, eager to quench our thirst.
16
We each of us eagerly took a draught to quench our thirst.
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Quench through the time
Quench across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common