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QUENCHLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quenchless mean?
• QUENCHLESS (adjective)
The adjective QUENCHLESS has 1 sense:
1. impossible to quench
Familiarity information: QUENCHLESS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impossible to quench
Synonyms:
quenchless; unquenchable
Context example:
unquenchable thirst
Similar:
insatiable; insatiate; unsatiable (impossible to satisfy)
Context examples
I am little better than a devil at this moment; and, as my pastor there would tell me, deserve no doubt the sternest judgments of God, even to the quenchless fire and deathless worm.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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