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outquenches

outquenches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outquench.

Meaning of outquench

Verb

outquench (third-person singular simple present outquenches, present participle outquenching, simple past and past participle outquenched)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To quench entirely; to extinguish.
    • And makes huge hauocke, whiles the candlelight / Out quenched, leaues no skill nor difference of wight.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16

Questions about outquenches

What is outquenches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outquenches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outquench.

Words near outquenches in the dictionary

  1. outqueened
  2. outqueening
  3. outqueens
  4. outquench
  5. outquenched
  6. outquenches
  7. outquenching
  8. outquestion
  9. outquestioned
  10. outquestioning
  11. outquestions

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