Dictionary Entry
quench
quench is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 22 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
- 2transitive verb
To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
- 3intransitive verb
To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
- 4verb
cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
"quench steel"
- 5verb
reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- 6verb
suppress or crush completely
"squelch any sign of dissent"
"quench a rebellion"
- 7verb
satisfy (thirst)
"The cold water quenched his thirst"
- 8verb
electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
- 9verb
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"
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