quench
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
satisfy (thirst)
The cold water quenched his thirst
Types & categories
- fulfil hypernym
Related & opposite
- ingest entails
Sense 2 verb
put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- ignite antonym
- extinguishing derivation
- fire extinguisher derivation
Sense 3 verb
electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
Types & categories
- bottle up hypernym
Sense 4 verb
suppress or crush completely
squelch any sign of dissent
Types & categories
- suppress hypernym
Related & opposite
- crushing derivation
- squelch circuit derivation
- squelch derivation
Sense 5 verb
reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
Types & categories
- reduce hypernym
Related & opposite
- physics domain topic
Sense 6 verb
cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
quench steel
Types & categories
- cool hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entails | Related & opposite | ingest |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fulfil |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | ignite |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | extinguishing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fire extinguisher |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | stub |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | douse |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | black out |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | bottle up |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | crushing |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | squelch circuit |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | squelch |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | suppress |
| 5 | domain topic | Related & opposite | physics |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | reduce |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | cool |