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unquenchable

adj

Etymology

From un- + quenchable.

  1. inherited from *kwankijaną✻
  2. inherited from cwenċan
  3. inherited from quenchen
  4. suffixed as quenchable — “quench + able”
  5. prefixed as unquenchable — “un + quenchable”

Definitions

  1. That cannot be quenched.

    • After a twelve-mile run in the hot sun, his thirst felt unquenchable.
    • Alas! thus ever does the weakness of our nature rebuke its strength, and genius is brought to the level—ay, below the level—of common humanity, by an unquenchable thirst for its applause.
    • With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA