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Quenchless

Definition: Quenchless

Quenchless

Adjective

1. Impossible to quench; "unquenchable thirst".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quenchless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Synonym: Quenchless

Synonym: unquenchable (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Quenchless

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Greed

Greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Familiar Quotations: Quenchless

AuthorQuotation

Lord Byron

As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

William Blake

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Quenchless

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

quenchless

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Quenchless

Language Translations for "quenchless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pashueshëm, i pashuar (inextinguishable, insatiable, undamped, unquenchable). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неутолим (inextinguishable, insatiable, insatiate, slakeless, unappeasable, unquenchable), непотушим (irrepressible). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neuhasitelný (inextinguishable, unquenchable). (various references)

   

German

  

unlöschlich. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ακατάσβεστοσ (inextinguishable). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csillapíthatatlan (sateless, unappeasable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

perenne (everlasting, perennial, perpetual), irreprimibile (irrepressible), inestinguibile (inextinguishable). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enchlessquay

   

Portuguese

  

inextinguível (never-dying, unquenchable). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неугасимый (inextinguishable, unquenchable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neutoljiv (immitigable, implacable, inextinguishable, unappeasable, unquenchable), neugasiv (inextinguishable, unquenchable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inextinguible (inextinguishable, unquenchable), inapagable (inextinguishable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

outsläcklig (inextinguishable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sönmez (inextinguishable, unquenchable), giderilemez, geçmez. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

невтолимий, невгасимий (inextinguishable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không dập tắt được. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Quenchless"

Words rhyming with "quenchless" (pronounced 'Quench"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Quenchless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-l-n-q-s-s-u"

-1 letter: squelches.

-2 letters: elenchus, quenches.

-3 letters: cheques, hueless, lunches, sequels, squelch.

-4 letters: censes, census, cheque, ensues, leches, lenses, lessen, lushes, queens, quench, scenes, schuln, sequel, sheens, sheqel, sneesh, uncles, unless.

-5 letters: cense, chess, clues, eches, ensue, heels, hence, leech, lenes, lense, luces, lunch, lunes, queen, scene, schul, seels, sense, sheen, shuln, shuls, shuns, slues, slush, uncle.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-l-n-q-s-s-u"
 

+4 letters: cliquishnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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