quench

"It's mainly to quench our thirst, and we have to give our animals water too," Andras, a student, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

I too had done horrible things to quench my self-loathing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2026

When it stopped raining he found a spring where he was able to quench his thirst, but he was so unwell he was unable to eat one of the snack bars he was carrying.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2025

Through fingerlike projections that descend upon the uterine wall, it attempts to quench the embryo’s appetite for maternal blood.

From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024

They drifted wide, the winds pushing them one way, the turtle swimming another, tipping sideways in the waves to quench the fire at its back.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

But quenches -- the sudden, destructive events wherein a part of the material loses superconductivity -- are a major barrier to their deployment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

Listening to KGAY, he added, quenches “a desire for a sense of connection that was in person, that was live and public.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

There is, legitimately, no item on earth that quenches and refreshes like good ol' water — especially when you've eaten something especially heavy or you've accidentally eaten the equivalent of your body weight in candy.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023

The river, which cascades from the Rockies down to the deserts of the Southwest, quenches the thirst of 40 million people in the U.S. and Mexico and sustains a $15 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2022

Truth gives peace to the yearning mind; it conquers error; it quenches the flames of desires; it leads to Nirvāna.

From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul

I sipped on this drink during a midday walk and it kept me cool, quenched and satisfied.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2025

They quenched their thirst by drinking contaminated water from a nearby well.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2025

Electrons in metals tend to show only one behavior at zero temperature, when all kinetic energy is quenched.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024

At this point near Gennadi village, its climate change-fueled fury was only quenched by the sea.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

It often seemed near—the heavenly world—but never had he quite reached it, never had he quenched the final thirst.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

It manufactures neodymium magnets by pouring liquid alloy onto a rotating, cooled disk, then rapidly quenching and pulverizing it to freeze the delicate crystalline structure at a microscopic scale before it can grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The primary solution to resolve this crisis would’ve been to pump a neutralizing agent into the problem tank, quenching it and making it no longer explosive.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

They are used to quenching their thirst with snow, but with little or no snowfall, they can easily get dehydrated.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

But there was a problem: No amount of dam building seemed capable of quenching the West’s thirst for water.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

Tonight the wood filled the room with the almost imperceptible aroma of citrus and quenching iron.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss