Definitions for quenches

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Spelling: [kwench]

IPA: /kwɛntʃ/

Quenches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in quenches (ceehnqsu).

Definitions for quenches

verb (used with object)

1. to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
2. to put out or extinguish (fire, flames, etc.).
3. to cool suddenly by plunging into a liquid, as in tempering steel by immersion in water.
4. to subdue or destroy; overcome; quell:
5. Electronics. to terminate (the flow of electrons in a vacuum tube) by application of a voltage.

Origin of quenches

1150-1200; Middle English quenchen, earlier cwenken; compare Old English -cwencan in ācwencan to quench (cf. a-³)

Examples for quenches

His passage kindles to unconsuming fires and quenches into living ashes.

It quenches your thirstThat's the best of it.Improves your healthThat's the rest of it.

It quenches all the eagerness to hear in the three faces, each in its own degree.

The sun obscures the lesser lights, and quenches even the moons light.

But contempt is passionless; it does not catch, it quenches fire.

A body is said to be black when it absorbs or quenches a large proportion of all the rays of white light falling upon it.

It unlocks the cabinet of the womb and quenches the violence of fire.

Drink; it is the grandest cup which quenches the thirst of humanity.

To which Abraham replied: “Rather the water that quenches the fire.”

Pass a black ribbon through the colours of the spectrum; it quenches all of them.