Usually means: Rapidly cool to alter properties.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. quench: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quench: Merriam-Webster
  3. quench: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quench: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quench: Collins English Dictionary
  6. quench: Vocabulary.com
  7. Quench, quench: Wordnik
  8. quench: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quench: Wiktionary
  10. quench: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quench: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quench: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Quench, quench: Dictionary.com
  14. quench: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. quench: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Quench (album), Quench (band), Quench (company), Quench (disambiguation), Quench (musician), Quench: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Quench: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. quench: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. quench: Rhymezone
  20. quench: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. quench: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. quench: FreeDictionary.org
  23. quench: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. quench: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quench: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quench: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quench: Medical dictionary
  3. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quench: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See quenchable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
verb:  (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
verb:  (transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
verb:  (transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
verb:  (transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
verb:  (transitive, physics) 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.
noun:  The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.
noun:  (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
noun:  (physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.

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