Weather
Synonyms for quench
Synonyms for quench: extinguish and quell. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for quench
- extinguishverb, in the sense "put out, as of fires, flames, or lights"
- quellverb, in the sense "suppress or crush completely"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of quench, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Quench the flames.
The true synonym
extinguish
Same sentence, swapped: Extinguish the flames.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- assuage
- ignite
- bog
suppress or crush completely
Quench a rebellion.
The true synonym
quell
Same sentence, swapped: Quell a rebellion.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for quench in the sentence quoted.
- slake
- quieten
- burke
Where quench turns up in the game
quench is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where quench is the trap
- silenceverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is still, in the sense "cause to be quiet or not talk", with quench sitting one tile away.
- crawfishverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is retreat, in the sense "make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity", with quench sitting one tile away.
Play quench
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so quench reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other weather words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. quench carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.