Translation for "apagar la sed" to english

Apagar la sed

verb

• quench

Translation examples

quench verb

Un trago de agua para apagar la sed, y estaban de nuevo borrachos.
One drink of water to quench the thirst and they were drunk again.

Después bebió para apagar la sed e inició el regreso hacia la casa.
Then he lapped to quench his thirst, and started back to the house.

—No considero el vino como una bebida; solo el champán es capaz de apagar la sed.
Wine is not a drink, only champagne; it does not even quench your thirst.

Al anochecer había llegado al lago de Helga y había decidido que no se conformaría con apagar la sed.
When darkness fell the elephant had reached the shores of Helga Lake and decided to do more than simply quench her thirst.

R., que era entonces un muchacho de dieciséis años, recuerda que raspaban hielo del interior de las paredes para apagar la sed.
R, a boy of sixteen, remembers that they scraped ice off the inside walls to quench their thirst.

Las tazas se llenaban y vaciaban con una rapidez extraordinaria, sin lograr apagar la sed de aquellos robustos hombres.
The cups are filled and emptied with extraordinary speed, without being able to quench the thirst of those robust men.