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.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
- intransitive verb. To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
- verb. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
"quench steel"
- verb. reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- verb. suppress or crush completely
"squelch any sign of dissent"
"quench a rebellion"
- verb. satisfy (thirst)
"The cold water quenched his thirst"
- verb. electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
quell, squelch, allay, assuage, slake, extinguish
Common word forms
quenched, quencher, quenches, quenching, quenchable, quenchless
Words from these letters
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