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say it: kwench
quench is a verb meaning "satisfy (thirst)". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
physics
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quench come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.