Anonymous ID: 508d2a Jan. 7, 2021, 7:52 p.m. No.12391217   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1315

Tempers

 

quench |kwen(t)SH|

verb [with object]

1 satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking.

• satisfy (a desire): he only pursued her to quench an aching need.

2 extinguish (a fire): firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames.

• stifle or suppress (a feeling): fury rose in him, but he quenched it.

• rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), especially in cold water or oil.

• Physics & Electronics suppress or damp (an effect such as luminescence, or an oscillation or discharge).

noun

an act of quenching something very hot.

DERIVATIVES

quenchable |ˈkwen(t)SHəb(ə)l| adjective.

quencher |ˈkwen(t)SHər| noun(chiefly Physics & Metallurgy).

quenchless adjective( literary)

ORIGIN

Old English -cwencan (in acwencan ‘put out, extinguish’), of Germanic origin.

 

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