quench
11quench — index allay, assuage, cancel, deter, discourage, extinguish, inhibit, quash, repress …
12quench — *crush, quell, extinguish, suppress, quash Analogous words: repress, *suppress: end, terminate (see CLOSE) …
13quench — ► VERB 1) satisfy (thirst) by drinking. 2) satisfy (a desire). 3) extinguish (a fire). 4) stifle (a feeling). 5) rapidly cool (hot metal). 6) Physics & Electronics suppress or damp (luminescence, an oscillation, etc.). DERIVA …
14quench|er — «KWEHN chuhr», noun. a person or thing that quenches …
15quench — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cwencan; akin to Old English cwincan to vanish, Old Frisian quinka Date: 12th century transitive verb 1. a. put out, extinguish b. to put out the light or fire of < quench glowing coals with water… …
16Quench — Der Quench oder das Quenchen bzw. Quenching (vom Englischen to quench = „löschen“) bezeichnet: ein Brausegetränk einen optischen Effekt, speziell in der Fluoreszenzspektroskopie, siehe Fluoreszenzlöschung in der Kryotechnik den Übergang eines… …
17quench — UK [kwentʃ] / US verb [transitive] Word forms quench : present tense I/you/we/they quench he/she/it quenches present participle quenching past tense quenched past participle quenched a) if you quench your thirst, you drink something so that you… …
18quench — [[t]kwɛntʃ[/t]] v. t. 1) to satisfy; allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.) 2) to put out; extinguish (fire, flames, etc.) 3) mel to cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water 4) to overcome; quell •… …
19Quench — A quench refers to a rapid cooling. In polymer chemistry and 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 …
20quench — quenchable, adj. quenchableness, n. quencher, n. /kwench/, v.t. 1. to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.). 2. to put out or extinguish (fire, flames, etc.). 3. to cool suddenly by plunging into …
