Quench

Definition: Quench

Quench

Verb

1. Satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst".

2. Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames".

3. Electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device.

4. Suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion".

5. Physics: reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance.

6. Cool by plunging into cold water; "quench metal".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quench" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mining

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Synonyms: Quench

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Dissuasion

Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.

Pain

Bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart,bless, beatify; satisfy; gratify, desire slake, satiate, quench; indulge, humor, flatter, tickle; tickle the palate; (savory); regale, refresh; enliven; treat; amuse; take one's fancy, tickle one's fancy, hit one's fancy; meet one's wishes; win the heart, gladden the heart, rejoice the heart, warm the cockles of the heart; do one's heart good.

Refrigeration

Damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) a.

Satiety

Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil.

Crosswords: Quench

Maybe it was to quench those tears forever that I took such revenge on them (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

An object of affection to quench your royal fire (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield)

Quench the killer's thirst (The Beast of Yucca Flats; writing credit: Coleman Francis)

I'm gonna put my foot so far up your ass, the water on my knee will quench your thirst (Major Payne; writing credit: Joe Connelly; Bob Mosher)

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Books

• Many waters cannot quench love (reference)

• Quench not the spirit (reference)

• Quench the Lamp (reference)

• Quench the Moon (reference)

• The Beautiful South / Quench (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Quench Your Curiosity (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Songs of Jack Beeson: Fire, Fire, Quench Desire (reference)

• Quench (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Quench your need for speed by motorbiking in the permitted parts of Arizona's public lands. Credit: UNknown.

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No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst: and the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He started up nervously from the stoneblock for he could no longer quench the flame in his blood

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Health

If you drink juice frequently to quench your thirst during the day, a high blood sugar level may result. (references)

Business

Its equipment include high temperature, rapid quench vacuum furnaces and an automated platinum plate system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "quench": lead quench ♦ quench ageing ♦ quench oil ♦ quench one's thirst ♦ quench tank ♦ quench thirst ♦ spark quench ♦ super source quench ♦ water quench. Additional references.

Ending with "quench": spark-quench.

Albanian

shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), mposht (conquer, depress, lick, manage, outdo, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, restrain, subdue, take care of, vanquish), kalit (anneal, harden, season, temper, toughen), i mbyll gojën (gag), i jap fund (abate, break up, close, cut, discontinue, disestablish, dissolve, end, finish, kill, overthrow, stop), i hap gojën, ftoh (chill, cool, gelation, grow cool, refrigerate, switch off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, sweeten, tranquillize), ‏نضح الماء, ‏تغلب (beat, conquer, cope, crumple, get over, get past, get the better of, knock down, master, negotiate, outdo, overbear, overcome, predomination, pull through, ride, vanquish, whack, worst), ‏سقى (irrigate, prime, water), ‏أطفأ (blow out, douse, extinguish, go out, put out, snuff out, stamp out, switch off, turn off), ‏أخمد (dampen, die out, expire, fall, hush, lay, muffle, oppress, put out, scotch, slake, smolder, smoulder, squelch, stifle, subside, suppress, trail off), ‏روى (irrigate, narrate, recite, recount, relate, report, retail, retrace, saturate, slake, sluice, story, tell, water), ‏برد (chill, cold, coldness, freshen, hail, rasp, refrigerate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

утолявам (satiate, satisfy, slake, still), уталожвам (assuage, salve), убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, starve, strike down, wipe out, zap), слагам край на (end, quash, resolve, tip), гася (blow out, extinguish, slack, slake, stifle), охлаждам (chill, condense, cool, damp, dash, freeze, ice, nip, refrigerate), накарвам да млъкне (put down, shellac, shout down, shut up, silence), затварям устата на (fix, floor), закалявам (anneal, case harden, draw, harden, season, set up, steel, toughen), загасявам, потушавам (clamp, extinguish, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quell, repress, smother, snuff out, squash, strangle, subdue, suppress, tread down), потискам (clamp, depress, domineer, drive back, flatten, get down, grind, gripe, inhibit, mope, muffle, oppress, persecute, pocket, press in, prey, quell, repress, suppress, throttle, tyrannize, weigh down). (various references)

Chinese 

解渴 , 熄灭 (Extinguish, Extinguished, Extinguishing, Quenched, Quenching). (various references)

Czech

zahnat (drive, drive away, fight off, hush, repel, sate, satiate, still), ukojit (assuage, sate, satiate, satisfy, slake), uhasit (assuage, douse, extinguish, put down, sate, satiate, satisfy, slake), potlaèit (contain, cork up, crush, fight down, hold back, hold in, inhibit, keep in, mince, put down, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, snuff out, stamp out, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, tame). (various references)

Danish

HRC-haardheden langs en Jominy-proevestang (hardness HRc plotted against distance from the end of an end quench test specimen), askerende (ash pan water channel, cinder quench, producer water channel), askespand (ash pan water channel, cinder quench, producer water channel), beta-quench (beta quench), bratkøle (to quench), bratkøling i blybad (lead patenting, lead quench), deformationsaeldning (overstrain aging, quench ageing, strain ageing), gamma-quench (gamma quench), ældning gennem bratkøling (quench aging), hærdebad (quench bath), vandkoeler (water chiller, water cooler, water quench), køle (to quench), kølevand (cooling water, quench water), koelevandskar (quench tank), nedkølingstank (quench tank), skinner for slukkevogn (coke car track, quench car track, quench track, quenching track), slukketaarn (quench tower), som det fremgaar af Jominy-kurver (as shown by end quench test hardness curves), gnistslukker (spark quench, spark quenching device, spark-quench). (various references)

Dutch

HRc-hardheidsverloop over de lengte van een Jominy-proefstuk (hardness HRc plotted against distance from the end of an end quench test specimen), afschrikken (deter, discourage, scare), afschrikken in een loodbad (lead patenting, lead quench), beta-afschrikking (beta quench), blustoren (quench tower, water tower), bluswagenbaan (coke car track, quench car track, quench track, quenching track), bluswagenspoor (coke car track, quench car track, quench track, quenching track), afschrikbad (quench bath), hardingsolie (quench oil, quenching oil), zoals uit de hardheidskromme blijkt (as shown by end quench test hardness curves), inspuitkoeler (quench cooler), koelbad (quench tank), koelwater (circulating water, cooling water, quench water), veroudering door afschrikken (quench aging), vonkonderdrukker (spark quench, spark quenching device, spark-quench), waterbak onder het rooster (ash pan water channel, cinder quench, producer water channel), waterkoeler (water chiller, water cooler, water quench), gamma-afschrikking (gamma quench). (various references)

Farsi 

فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Extinguish, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Suppress, Tranquilize), خاموش کردن (Extinguish, Hush, Out, Smolder, Smother, Stanch, Stifle, Suffocate), اطفا, دفع کردن (Dispel, Ejaculate, Eject, Excrete, Exorcise, Raise, Repel, Repulse). (various references)

Finnish

sammuttaa (extinguish, put out, switch off, turn off). (various references)

French

vaincre, tremper (to quench), refroidir, battre, assouvir, apaiser (quiet, quieten), étouffer (quash, quell), éteindre. (various references)

German

stillen (allay, assuage, breast feeding, breast-feed, check, ease, nurse, nursing, relieve, sate, satiate, satisfy, slake, stanch, staunch, stay, still, stop, suckle, to assuage, to slake, to stanch), löschen (amortize, blot, blow out, clear, close, deaden, delete, discharge, erase, erasure, expunge, extinguish, kill, land, pay off, put out, redeem, rub off, rub out, scratch, slake, souse, strike off, switch out, to delete, to erase, to expunge, to extinguish, to kill, to slake, turn off, unload, unship, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Greek 

σβήνω (blow out, burn out, delete, die out, erase, extinguish, fade away, faint, go out, obliterate, put out, rub out, slake, snuff, snuff out, switch off, turn off, wipe out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבוע (be filled, be satisfied, have abundance, quench thirst, receive enough), לשבור צמאון (quench thirst). (various references)

Hungarian

elolt tüzet, elnyom (ground, oppress, overwhelm, quell, repress, ride, throttle, to bully, to coerce, to drown out, to grain down, to grain sg under one's heel, to grind, to hold down, to inhibit, to keep down, to keep under, to mask, to overwhelm, to put down, to quash, to repress, to stifle, to suppress, to tread down, to victimize, trample), elfojt (Burke, close down, damp, deafen, extinguish, repress, smother, suppress, to bottle, to bottle up, to check, to curb, to damp, to deaden, to drown out, to inhibit, to mask, to put down, to quash, to quell, to repress, to silence, to smother, to stifle, to strangle, to strangulate, to subdue, to suppress, to tame, to throttle down, to wad). (various references)

Italian

togliere (decrease, disfranchise, free, get out, go away, lose weight, peel back, pick, pull, put, put off, raise, relieve, remove, slim, strip, take, take away, take from, take off, take out, wear off, wipe away), temperare (mitigate, sharpen, temper), spegnere (be extinguished, blow out, cut off, die down, douse, extinguish, fade, go out, pass away, put, put off, put out, shut off, slake, snuff, stub out, switch off, turn out), smorzare (absorb, appease, be appeased, cushion, dampen, deaden, dim, dull, fade, grow fainter, muffle), levare (abolish, get out, get up, levy, lift, raise, remove, rise, subtract, take away, take off, take out, upbeat, withdraw), estinguere, spegnere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

渇�'�'やす (to quench one's thirst). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かつ�'いやす (to quench one's thirst). (various references)

Korean 

냉각하십시�". (various references)

Manx

mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Norwegian

slukke, slå ned. (various references)

Pig Latin

enchquay.(various references)

Portuguese

temperar (anneal, attemper, chasten, douse, flavor, flavour, harden, moderate, sauce, season, spice, temper, zest), resfriar (chill), reprimir (allay, arrest, bit, bridle, check, coerce, constrain, control, cork, douse, forbear, gulp, halt, keep back, keep down, overbear, quell, refrain, rein in, repress, restrain, stifle, stop, subdue, suppress, throttle, tutor, vanquish), pôr termo a (squelch, terminate), mitigar (alleviate, assuage, bate, blunt, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relieve, salve, sate, slake, soften, soothe), mergulhar em água (douse, souse), matar (bump off, butcher, close out, despatch, destroy, dispatch, do in, kill, liquidate, murder, rub out, shoot, slaughter, slay), extinguir (die, do for, douse, exterminate, extinguish, fade, jugulate, obliterate, out, put out, quash, smother, wipe out), esfriar bruscamente (douse), destruir (blast, butcher, consume, defeat, demolish, depredate, destroy, devour, dilapidate, douse, eat, end, explode, extinguish, finish off, havoc, impair, kill, mine, obliterate, override, overwhelm, poison, puncture, quash, rase, ravage, raze, reave, reive, ruin, sabotage, shatter, slay, subvert, tear down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wrack, wreck), arrefecer (discourage, douse, freshen, rub up), apagar (abrade, dele, delete, douse, efface, erase, extinguish, obliterate, out, put out, rub out, scrape off, turn off, turn out, wipe off, zap). (various references)

Romanian

stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, hush, quit, silence, slack, slake, smother, wither), stãvili (arrest, bar, barricade, block, dam up, delay, dike, embank, hinder, refrain, restrain, retain, retard, shut, slacken, slug, stem), se stinge (blow out, break, die, die away, die out, disappear, expire, fade, fail, go, languish), rãci (catch a chill, catch cold, chill, cool, damp, refrigerate), potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quiet, reassure, relieve, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, sweeten, temper, tranquillize), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), a-şi lua piuitul, închide gura cuiva (seal smb.'s lips), înãbuşi (blanket, bring under, choke, control, deaden, deafen, drown, hush, keep down, kill, mortify, muffle, quash, quell, restrain, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), ţine în frâu (hold in, manage). (various references)

Russian 

гасить (extinguish, put out, stifle). (various references)

Scottish

caisg (check, curb, quell, restrain, stop), b� th (drown, slake, vain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

utoliti (pacify, satisfy, slake, stay), ugasiti (douse, extinguish, put out, slake, snuff, switch off, turn off, turn out), gasiti (extinguish). (various references)

Spanish

templar (anneal, key, plunge, temper, tune, tune up), sofocar (asphyxiate, break, choke, nearly die, put down, put out, quell, smother, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, suppress, throttle), reprimir a (bridle, clamp, curb, tame), enfriar (chill, cool, cool down, damp, dampen, dull, get cold, ice), callar (keep quiet, quieten, shut up, unvoice), aplacar (appease, placate, propitiate, satisfy), apagar la sed. (various references)

Swedish

undertrycka (hold down, inhibit, keep down, keep under, quell, repress, restrain, smother, subdue, subjugate, suppress), släcka (ease, extinguish, put out, slacken, turn out). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้เย็นลง (cool). (various references)

Turkish

sulamak (hydrate, irrigate, sprinkle, water), su vermek (water), söndürmek (attenuate, damp, damp down, dampen, deflate, douse, dowse, extinguish, hydrate, kill, put out, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), kırmak (bear down, blight, breach, break, break down, bust, chill, chop, crack, cut, dampen, discount, fracture, freeze, give offence, give offense, hurt, lacerate, offend, outrage, pique, put off, put smb.'s nose out of joint, reduce, refract, Rive, ruffle smb.'s feelings, rupture, set up, shatter, skip, snap, snap off, split, stave in, sting, touch, vanquish), gidermek (allay, appease, avert, clear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, efface, eliminate, fulfil, fulfill, gratify, iron out, obviate, remove, repair, resolve, satisfy, slake, smooth away, smooth out, supply), dindirmek (abate, alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, kill, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, soothe, stop, suppress), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), ağzını tıkamak (gag). (various references)

Ukrainian

угамування (appeasement, assuagement), угамовувати (appease, assuage, moderate, slake, still), гасіння (extinction, quenching), гасити (choke, dowse, extinguish, null, out, turn out), притупляти (benumb, damp, deaden, dull, narcotize, opiate, rebate, rust), придушувати (deject, depress, neutralize, outray, overgo, put down, quash, quell, repress, stamp out, strangle, suppress), придушення (neutralization, repression, suppression). (various references)

Welsh

diffodd (extinguish, turn out). (various references)

conpescens, conpescuit, extincta, extinctae, extincti, extinctum, extinctus, extinguas, extinguat, extinguentis, extinguere, extingueretur, extinguet, extinguetur, extinguit, extinguuntur, extinxerunt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "quench": quenchable, quenched, quencher, quenchers, quenches, quenching, quenchless. (additional references)

Words containing "quench": unquenchable. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quench" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dunecht, kench, Qbench, Qenah, quach, quanth, quecho, queec, quelch, quenc, quence, quenchs, quent, quinc, quink, Quynh, Yudenich. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: cue, ecu, hen, hue, hun.

-4 letters: eh, en, he, ne, nu, uh, un.

+2 letters: quenched, quencher, quenches.

+3 letters: quenchers, quenching, squinched, squinches, technique.

+4 letters: chequering, quenchable, quenchless, squelching, techniques.

+5 letters: chloroquine.