Word Meanings - QUENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

causative of cwincan, acwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. 1. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle;

Additional info about word: QUENCH

causative of cwincan, acwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. 1. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc. Ere our blood shall quench that fire. Shak. The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy. Shak. 2. To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering. Syn. -- To extinguish; still; stifle; allay; cool; check.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of QUENCH)

• Damp
• blunt
• dishearten
• quench
• slack
• moderate
• humid
• wet
• moist
• discourage
• discountenance
• repress
• Extinguish
• Abolish
• destroy
• extirpate
• eradicate
• kill
• annihilate
• put out
• Quell
• crush
• reduce
• allay
• stifle
• quiet
• pacify
• suppress
• calm
• subdue
• overpower
• Stifle
• Choke
• suffocate
• throttle
• extinguish
• burke

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of QUENCH)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to QUENCH)

• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CHOKECHERRY
  The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
• SUFFOCATE
  Suffocated; choked. Shak.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• BLUNTISH
  Somewhat blunt. -- Blunt"ish*ness, n.
• THROTTLE
  The throttle valve. Throttle lever , the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve , a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it
• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• HUMIDNESS
  Humidity.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• ABOLISH
  1. To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly. 2. To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. And with thy blood abolish
• THROTTLER
  See (more info) 1. One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• CAPACIFY
  To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• ARTICHOKE
  word as carciofo; cf. older spellings archiciocco, archicioffo, carciocco, and Sp. alcachofa, Pg. alcachofra; prob. fr. Ar. al- 1. The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.