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quench
English
Etymology
From Middle English quenchen, from Old English cwen?an, acwen?an, from Proto-Germanic *kwankijan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kw?nt??/
- Rhymes: -?nt?
Verb
quench (third-person singular simple present quenches, present participle quenching, simple past and past participle quenched)
- (transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
- Synonyms: appease, slake
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
- (transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
- (transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
- (transitive, physics) To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state.
Translations
Noun
quench (plural quenches)
- (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
- (physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.
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slocken
English
Etymology
From Old Norse slokna (Swedish slockna).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sl?k?n/
Verb
slocken (third-person singular simple present slockens, present participle slockening, simple past and past participle slockened)
- (transitive, dialectal) To put out, extinguish (a fire).
- (transitive, dialectal) To quench; to allay; to slake.
Synonyms
- (quench): slock
Anagrams
- Conkles, enlocks
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