Word Meanings - OUTQUENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser.
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- OUTQUENCH
To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser. - ENTIRELY
1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser. - EXTINGUISH
1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. - CANDLELIGHT
The light of a candle. Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden. - QUENCHLESS
Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." Byron. Syn. -- Inextinguishable; unquenchable. -- Quench"less*ly, adv. -- Quench"less*ness, n. - QUENCHABLE
Capable of being quenched. - EXTINGUISHMENT
The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. Abbott. (more info) 1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment - QUENCHER
One who, or that which, quenches. Hammond. - EXTINGUISHABLE
Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed. - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - EXTINGUISHER
One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle. - QUENCH
causative of cwincan, acwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. 1. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. - UNEXTINGUISHABLE
Inextinguishable. -- Un`ex*tin"guish*a*bly, adv. - INEXTINGUISHABLE
Not capable of being extinguished; extinguishable; unquenchable; as, inextinguishable flame, light, thirst, desire, feuds. "Inextinguishable rage." Milton. - INEXTINGUISHABLY
So as not to be extinguished; in an inextinguishable manner.