MEANING
1. To cool a heated material rapidly, often to alter its structure or properties.
2. To extinguish a fire, flame, or other active source.
3. To satisfy thirst or a desire represented as thirst.
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Words that belong together
- quench steel
- a quenched component
On the page
The report attributed the component’s structure to the way it had been quenched.
In the story, the alloy cracked after the rushed quench.
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Word forms
- Base
- quench
- Past tense
- quenched
- Past participle
- quenched
- Present participle
- quenching
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- quench
- Present continuous
- am/is/are quenching
- Present perfect
- have/has quenched
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been quenching
- Past
- quenched
- Past continuous
- was/were quenching
- Past perfect
- had quenched
- Past perfect continuous
- had been quenching
- Future
- will quench
- Future continuous
- will be quenching
- Future perfect
- will have quenched
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been quenching
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: quench; quenches; quenched; quenched; quenching Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: quenches.
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