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Verb
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quenched, past participle; quenches, 3rd person singular present; quenching, present participle; quenched, past tense;
  1. Satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking

  2. Satisfy (a desire)
    • - he only pursued her to quench an aching need
  3. Extinguish (a fire)
    • - firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames
  4. Stifle or suppress (a feeling)
    • - fury rose in him, but he quenched it
  5. Rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), esp. in cold water or oil

  6. Suppress or damp (an effect such as luminescence, or an oscillation or discharge)

Noun
  1. An act of quenching something very hot

  1. satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
  2. snuff out: 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"
  3. electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
  4. squelch: suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
  5. reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
  6. cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
  7. A quench refers to a rapid cooling. In materials science, quenching is used to prevent low-temperature processes such as phase transformations from occurring by only providing a narrow window of time in which the reaction is both thermodynamically favorable and kinetically accessible. ...
  8. Quench released in the UK in October 1998 is The Beautiful South's sixth original album. Including the compilation Carry On Up The Charts it was the band's third album in a row to reach the top of the charts.
  9. Quench are an English rock band based in Cheltenham, Oxford and Bristol. The band have toured the UK and Europe and have performed at festivals, including the UK's Greenbelt festival.
  10. Quench is an ultraviolet water filtration company in the United States, serving more than 20,000 businesses with over 40,000 bottleless water coolers. Zenith International lists Quench as a leading distributor in the point-of-use (POU) market along with Macke Water Systems and Nestle Waters. ...
  11. (Quenching (fluorescence)) Quenching refers to any process which decreases the fluorescence intensity of a given substance. A variety of processes can result in quenching, such as excited state reactions, energy transfer, complex-formation and collisional quenching. ...
  12. (Quenching (scrubber)) In pollution scrubbers, sometimes hot exhaust gas is quenched, or cooled by water sprays, before entering the scrubber proper. Hot gases (those above ambient temperature) are often cooled to near the saturation level.
  13. The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state; To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst; To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light. ...
  14. (quenching) The extinction of any of several physical properties; The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it
  15. (QUENCHED) Cooled very quickly.
  16. (Quenching) In the heat treating of metals, the step of cooling metals rapidly in order to obtain desired properties; most commonly accomplished by immersing the metal in oil or water. In the case of most copper base alloys, quenching has no effect other than to hasten cooling. ...
  17. (Quenching) The process of rapidly cooling a steel in order to obtain the hardened martensite of the steel.
  18. (Quenching) Process of rapid-cooling from an elevated temperature by contact with liquids, gasses or solids.
  19. (Quenching) Rapid cooling of a heated metal, generally by immersion in liquids, to increase strength and hardness. Quenching is always followed by a temper to increase ductility.
  20. (QUENCHING) A closely controlled rapid cooling of metal from some type of high temperature operation such as heat treating, casting, forging, or extruding. ...
  21. (Quenching) Cooling a part with water after it has been heated.
  22. (Quenching) Dipping a heated object into water, oil or other substance, to quickly reduce the temperature. Quenching into water gives a more rapid cooling rate than into oil. The term also applies to cooling in salt and molten-metal baths or by means of an air blast. ...
  23. (Quenching) During the roasting process, adding water to the beans when they have reached their desired color.
  24. (Quenching) Immersing hot, solid items in a cool liquid. Used as a means of tempering metals.
  25. (Quenching) In metallurgy, it is most commonly used to harden steel by introducing martensite, in which case the steel must be rapidly cooled through its eutectoid point, the temperature at which austenite becomes unstable. ...