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v. To put out (a fire, for example); extinguish.

v. To suppress; squelch: The disapproval of my colleagues quenched my enthusiasm for the plan.

v. To put an end to; destroy.

v. To slake; satisfy: Mineral water quenched our thirst.

v. To cool (hot metal) by thrusting into water or other liquid.

v. To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.

v. To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.)

v. To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.

n. The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.

v. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions

v. To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

verb-intransitive. To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.

To extinguish or put out, as fire.

To extinguish or allay; stop; put an end to, as thirst.

To relieve the thirst of.

To suppress; stifle; check; repress; destroy: as, to quench a passion or emotion.

To lay or place in water, as a heated iron. See temper.

To be extinguished; go out.

To lose zeal; cool; become cool.

n. The act of quenching or extinguishing; also, the state of being extinguished.

To produce a series of crusts on (molten metal), each being taken off as soon as it is formed.

n. A pit or cavity in which water can be thrown upon hot coke just manufactured in an oven, so as to cool it and leach out the soluble sulphur elements.

v. suppress or crush completely

v. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid

v. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

v. reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance

v. satisfy (thirst)

v. electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device

"But through an innovative use of a laboratory tool called a quench-flow machine-a machine that allows for extreme precision in the stopping, or "quenching," of a reaction-the team was able to look at what was going on over intervals of just 10 milliseconds in both yeast and human proteins."

quenched    quenches    quenching   

conquer    subdue    curb    inhibit    stamp down   

blackout    douse    stub    put out   

cool    extinguish    check    stifle    still   

Bench    French    Hench    bench    clench   

simpering    non-knowledge    anatta    immunosorbent    triathlon