quenching

Meaning of quenching

verb
  1. To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
    The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
  2. To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
  3. 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.
  4. To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
  5. To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
noun
  1. The extinction of any of several physical properties.
  2. The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.

Information about quenching

  • The plural form of quenching is: quenchings.
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Hyphenation of quenching

quench-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • quenching is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

quenching synonyms

Meaning extinction:

extinction, extinguishing

Meaning :

appease, slake

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