quench
to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
to put out or extinguish (fire, flames, etc.).
to cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.
to subdue or destroy; overcome; quell: to quench an uprising.
Electronics. to terminate (the flow of electrons in a vacuum tube) by application of a voltage.
Origin of quench
1Other words from quench
- quench·a·ble, adjective
- quench·a·ble·ness, noun
- quencher, noun
- un·quench·a·ble, adjective
- un·quenched, adjective
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How to use quench in a sentence
It takes massive amounts of energy to pump San Diego’s main source – the Colorado River – to quench demands already.
Farmers Want to Create San Diego’s Carbon Dumps | MacKenzie Elmer | February 3, 2021 | Voice of San Diego“When I looked at it, it seemed unquenchable and endless and infinite,” he remembers.
Harold's unquenchable desire, the axis mundi of his existence.
The Stacks: Harold Conrad Was Many Things, But He Was Never, Ever Dull | Mark Jacobson | March 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe muscle soreness soon escalated into a storm of extreme symptoms—crippling pain, flu-like weakness, unquenchable thirst.
Necrotizing Fasciitis: Life After Flesh-Eating Bacteria | Casey Schwartz | May 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTShe left the convent in 1997, went back to school, and later wrote a memoir about her experience, An Unquenchable Thirst.
Former Nun Mary Johnson Criticizes Vatican Crackdown on U.S. Sisters | Abigail Pesta | April 27, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
But locking up Ai simply made clear the power of his kind of oppositional art, and its global impact, and how unquenchable it is.
Though stern and even hard in his official duties, he had unquenchable natural affections.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume II | John LordThere were aspects of that unquenchable agitation that were absolutely heroic and aspects that were absolutely pitiful.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsHe had discovered a new quality, the same heroic soul that her brother Philip had, the unquenchable courage of the great marshal.
The Hosts of the Air | Joseph A. AltshelerGenerous and full of exuberance, he had some warm friends whom he amused extremely by his unquenchable enthusiasm and good humour.
Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 | Gustave FlaubertTow dipped in it was fastened to the heads of arrows, which thus became carriers of unquenchable flame.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for quench
/ (kwɛntʃ) /
to satisfy (one's thirst, desires, etc); slake
to put out (a fire, flame, etc); extinguish
to put down or quell; suppress: to quench a rebellion
to cool (hot metal) by plunging it into cold water
physics to reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
electronics
to suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit
to suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
Origin of quench
1Derived forms of quench
- quenchable, adjective
- quencher, noun
- quenchless, adjective
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