quench
51quench — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. put or snuff out; extinguish; still; damp, chill; slake, sate, satisfy. See incombustibility, dissuasion, pleasure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To satisfy] Syn. slake, allay, hit the spot*; see drink 1 …
52quench — kwentʃ v. satisfy a need (esp. thirst); extinguish, put out; cool by immersing in a cold liquid; repress a desire (or urge, etc.); put an end to, destroy; relieve …
53quench — verb 1》 satisfy (thirst) by drinking. 2》 satisfy (a desire). 3》 extinguish (a fire). ↘rapidly cool (hot metal). 4》 stifle (a feeling). ↘dated reduce to silence. 5》 Physics & Electronics suppress or damp (luminescence, an oscillation,… …
54quench — v. a. 1. Extinguish, put out. 2. Destroy, still, stifle, repress, check, suppress, put an end to. 3. Allay, shake, cool, extinguish …
55quench — verb 1) they quenched their thirst Syn: satisfy, slake, sate, satiate, gratify, relieve, assuage, take the edge off, indulge; lessen, reduce, diminish, check, suppress, extinguish, overcome 2) …
56quench — v 1. satisfy, satiate, sate, flake, surfeit, glut, saturate, allay; Sl. take care of it, Sl. hit the spot; have one s fill, have more than enough, have enough for now; gorge, cloy, pall. 2. extinguish, snuff out, put out, Inf. douse, Inf. dinch,… …
57quench — Kinai …
58quench — [1] to damp or suppress a spark. [2] A resistor or resistor capacitor shunting a contact, to reduce high frequency sparking when a current is broken in an inductive circuit …
59quench — v.tr. 1 satisfy (thirst) by drinking. 2 extinguish (a fire or light etc.). 3 cool, esp. with water (heat, a heated thing). 4 esp. Metallurgy cool (a hot substance) in cold water, air, oil, etc. 5 a stifle or suppress (desire etc.). b Physics &… …
60quench area — A zone in the combustion chamber where the piston at top dead center is very close to the cylinder head. Because the piston and cylinder head is cooler than the unburned part of the fuel air mixture (i.e., end gas), they pull the heat from the… …
