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quench English

Meaning quench meaning

What does quench mean?
Definitions in simple English

quench Verb

— When you quench yourself, you drink water to satisfy your thirst. I need some water to quench my thirst

quench

— 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 reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance — verb cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid quench steel — verb (= squelch) suppress or crush completely squelch any sign of dissent quench a rebellion — verb (= snuff out, extinguish) 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 snuff out the candles

Synonyms quench synonyms

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quench English » English

extinguish put out slake stub stifle snuff out quell suppress erase allay turn off satisfy blow out assuage switch off suffocate squelch snuff smother rub out repress quenching pacify douse dampen cool check zap wipe out vulcanization unship unman turn out tempering temper tame swallow suppression subdue strangle stop stay soothe soak slock silence shock cooling shock chilling setting set

Topics quench topics

What do people use quench to talk about?
Daily life Fire

Extinguish a fire

Conjugation quench conjugation

How do you conjugate quench?

quench · verb

Examples quench examples

How do I use quench in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I had a glass of beer to quench my thirst.
I quench my thirst with a cold glass of water.
Can you quench your desire?
This will quench your thirst.

Movie subtitles

Mount them and make incision in their hides that their hot blood may spin in English eyes and quench them with superior courage.
That a man should have such a great big thirst like I have. and only water to quench it with.
You said you forgot to quench the coals!
Love is something so strong, so real, that it's as impossible to quench it. as it is for a man to take his own life.
Does it take the whole Nile to quench your thirst?
We'll quench their thirst with a sleeping potion mixed in sake.
Let me quench your thirst!
Ring the bell, close the book, quench the candle.
Quench!
It would be good to quench our thirst.
Will you gentlemen assist me quench it?
We are here to feed your souls with prayers and to quench your thirst at the fountain of truth.
The stupid idea of trying to quench thin paper with your jacket!
Here, this'll quench your thirst.
He says he has a thirst for knowledge. And he wants to quench it in our swimming pool.
I've got a terrible thirst and nothing to quench it!
To quench my thirst. Jose!
What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.
They claim that I did not quench the fire in that windy night.
Take them into the pump room and quench it.
While I wait, I will quench my thirst.
Quench the candle.
My time as a man has become a distant memory. a time when I had no need of blood to quench this unbearable thirst.
We won't be tempted to quench our thirst on others.
Brothers! We are here to feed your souls with prayers and to quench your thirst at the fountain of truth.
They shall burn together, and no one shall quench them.
And he wants to quench it in our swimming pool.
Mount them, and make incision in their hides, that their hot blood may spin in English eyes, and quench them with superior courage, ha!
As I wasn't taking in any water, I drank a little alcohol to quench my thirst.
The wind-shaked surge with high and monstrous mane seems to pour water on the burning Bear and quench the guards of the ever-fixed Pole.
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister I can again my former light restore, should I repent me.
It will nourish you and quench your thirst.
Quench it.
Donna Rosa, pray tell me, what can quench the thirst of a fatigued wayfarer?
Quench your thirst.
Can you quench my hunger?
To quench his thirst a traveler has little time.

News and current affairs

Relatively prosperous Europeans tend not to purchase a car merely to get from point A to point B, shoes to keep their feet dry, a watch just to tell the time, or a bottle of water only to quench their thirst.
As a result, Europe continues to try to quench the fire with gasoline - German-enforced austerity - with the consequence that, in a mere three years, the eurozone's financial crisis has become a European existential crisis.

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