QUENCH

v. 1 satisfy, slake, sate, surfeit, satiate, allay, appease My thirst isn't quenched by those sweet fizzy drinks 2 put out, extinguish, douse, smother, snuff out, stifle, kill, destroy, suppress, squelch, repress, overcome, subdue Even the most totalitarian regime cannot entirely quench the fire of freedom in the hearts of the oppressed