quenched

Other forms of quenched

comparative

quenchedder·

superlative

quencheddest·

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.

Questions about quenched

What does quenched mean?

quenched means "allayed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quenched?

quenched has 1 syllable: quenched.

What is another word for quenched?

Close synonyms include satisfied, slaked, quelled, squelched. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quenched a common word?

quenched is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.