Quench

Verb

 * 1)  To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
 * The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
 * 1) *1898,, 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.
 * 1)  To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.)
 * Then the MacManus went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it. -- Saul Bellow
 * 1)  To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
 * The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.

Noun

 * 1)  The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.

Thesaurus
allay, appease, asphyxiate, assuage, blow out, blunt, bottle up, censor, chill, choke, choke off, clamp down on, cool, cork, cork up, crack down on, crush, damp, damp down, dampen, deflect, destroy, deter, disaffect, discourage, disincline, disinterest, distract, divert, douse, drown, extinguish, feast, feed, gag, gratify, hold down, indispose, jump on, keep down, keep under, kill, muzzle, out, overcome, pour water on, put, put down, put off, put out, quash, quell, reduce, regale, repel, repress, sate, satiate, satisfy, shut down on, silence, sit down on, sit on, slack, slake, smash, smother, snuff, snuff out, squash, squelch, stamp out, stanch, stifle, strangle, stultify, subdue, suffocate, suppress, surfeit, throttle, trample out, trample underfoot, turn aside, turn away, turn from, turn off, wean from

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: apaiser, étancher
 * German:


 * Hungarian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese: saciar, matar a sede
 * Russian:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: elolt


 * Irish: múch
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: тушить
 * Spanish: apagar


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian: lehűt


 * Irish: fuaraigh
 * Norwegian: bråkjøle
 * Portuguese: resfriar, temperar (aço)
 * Russian: охлаждать