Definitions
cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
Word origin
From Middle English quenchen, from Old English cwenċan, from Proto-Germanic *kwankijaną.
Used in a sentence
“The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.”
“The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thriſty heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes diſplay, / Whiles creeping ſlomber made him to forget[…]”
“I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Satisfy, as thirst”6 letters
02“Satisfy thirst”6 letters
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