quench

Etymology
From, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
 * 2)  To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
 * 3)  To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
 * 4)  To terminate or greatly diminish  by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
 * 5)  To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
 * 6)  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.
 * 1)  To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
 * 2)  To terminate or greatly diminish  by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
 * 3)  To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
 * 4)  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.
 * 1)  To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * quenchcoal

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: հարկանեմ
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bambara: mìn
 * Basque:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 止渴, 解渴
 * Hakka: 止渴, 解渴
 * Hokkien: 止渴
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: sensoifigi, malsoifigi, sensoifiĝi, malsoifiĝi
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , ,
 * Galician: saciar
 * Georgian: წყურვილის მოკვლა
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: παίω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic:, slökkva, væta kverkarnar
 * Ido:
 * Irish: cosc
 * Italian:, , , , , , ,
 * Khmer:, , ស្កប់ស្កល់
 * Lithuanian: numalšinti, malšinti
 * Maltese: seqa
 * Manx: east
 * Maori: whakanā
 * Mirandese:
 * Norwegian: slukke
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: sløkkja
 * Occitan:, ,
 * Old Church Slavonic: гасити
 * Phuthi: nyorulla
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bàth, caisg
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: утажи́вати, ута́жити, утољи́вати, уто̀лити, напи́јати, на̀пити, уга́сити
 * Roman:, , , , , ,
 * Spanish:, /el hambre
 * Swedish:, läska
 * Telugu: దాహముతీర్చు
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вгамо́вувати, вгамува́ти
 * Volapük: säsoafükön
 * Walloon:


 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܟ̰ܡܥ
 * Armenian:
 * Old Armenian: շիջուցանեմ
 * Aromanian: astingu
 * Basque: itzali
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , verblinken, verglimmen
 * Middle Dutch: blusschen, lesschen
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: sløkkja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, apagar
 * Georgian: ჩაქრობა
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: σβέννυμι, μαραίνω
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: slökkva
 * Ido:
 * Irish: múch
 * Old Irish: ardíbdai
 * Italian: ,
 * Kumyk: сёндюрмек
 * Latin: extinguo, exstinguo, restinguo
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Manx: moogh
 * Maori: tinei, whakapoko, tini
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: slukke
 * Nynorsk: sløkkja
 * Old English: dwæscan, adwæscan, cwencan
 * Middle English: stranglen
 * Polish: ugaszać,, wygaszać, wygasić, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: thasnuy
 * Romanian: e
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: га́сити, уга́сити, утр́нути
 * Roman:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Tocharian A: käs-
 * Tocharian B: käs-
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: га́сити, пога́сити
 * Xhosa: qabula
 * Yiddish: לעשן
 * Zulu: cisha


 * Adyghe: хэгъэон
 * Arabic: أنقع
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 熞, 蘸火, 淬火
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: fuaraigh, múch
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: закали, закалува
 * Manx: moogh
 * Maori: kōpiro
 * Norwegian: bråkjøle
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: (бы́стро) охлажда́ть
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка́лити
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: гартувати, швидко охолоджувати


 * Finnish:
 * German: quenchen

Noun

 * 1) The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.
 * 2)  The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
 * 3)  A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.
 * 1)  A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.
 * 1)  A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.