Definition of quench in English:

quench

verb kwɛn(t)ʃkwɛn(t)ʃ

[with object]

1Satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking.
（喝水）止（渴）
Example sentencesExamples
- You could drink it, but it doesn't quench thirst in the least, and it has a slightly bitter taste.
- We walked under deep blue skies, quenched our thirst from mountain streams and lakes, fought off horses that thought they had more right than us to our lunch, collected herbs and revelled in the magnificent scenery.
- It leaves your mouth so coated that nothing quenches your thirst, and your fingers so oily that you dare touch nothing of value for hours.
- But the rest of you, squandering money to quench your thirst with a drink more expensive than petrol, you're just weak-willed and wet.
- A friendly efficient staff is happy to help you quench your thirst by bringing you a drink from the fully stocked bar.
- On the way back, we stopped at that McDonald's, just to get frozen drinks to quench our thirsts.
- On Saturday night, the visitors paid a visit to a traditional Irish music session in Clancy's Pub on Leinster Street, where, after their long walk they quenched their thirst with pints of Guinness and Irish malt.
- We moved back to the bar joking and laughing, and ordered drinks to quench our thirst.
- Harvard School of Public Health professor Grace Wyshak recently found that ninth and 10 th-grade girls who sipped soda were three times more likely to break bones than those who quenched their thirsts with other drinks.
- The sizzling sunshine made it a bumper day for the publicans and stallholders with horse traders rushing to quench their thirst at regular intervals.
- The cast of Frasier were rebuked for ‘consuming very large ice cream cones’ and drinking alcohol to quench their thirst after exercise.
- Two deer had come to drink, one keeping watch while the other quenched its thirst.
- Lying outside the hurricane belt, it receives little rain and must rely on the largest desalination plant in the world to quench the thirst of its population of 150,000.
- Give people great drinks that quench their thirst and spark their imagination.
- He felt so grateful for the simple taste of a few gulps of water that he sat back to enjoy the way it had quenched his thirst.
- He no longer quenches his thirst by drinking sodas.
- A few glasses of the juice quenches thirst and satisfies hunger, said Elis.
- But once we've quenched our thirst, having just ended a cross-town walk, we're more interested in food than booze.
- After we had quenched our thirst, we headed off back for Swinford.
- But with high chances of dehydration in this hot and dry weather, which will only continue to intensify in March and April, these refreshment stalls are a quick fix to quench your thirst.
Synonyms
fulfil, gratify, meet, fill, serve, provide for, supply
1. 1.1 Satisfy (a desire)
  满足（欲望）
  he only pursued her to quench an aching need
  他追求她仅仅是为了满足难耐的需要。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Then at least I could get angry, and that might have helped quench this burning desire.
  We need time to indulge in the things that we like doing purely for our own gratification once in a while to remind us that we, too, exist and need to quench certain desires.
  I was in love you see, that dizzy, heady, heart wrenching type of love that has a tendency to afflict youths and cause them to go to great lengths to quench their desire and possess that which they crave.
  To quench the thirst for power, Datang Power has applied to raise up to 6 billion yuan by selling one billion A shares to fund expansion of 10 power plants.
  With these books, her uncle hoped to quench her desire for adventure, but he only increased it.
  Whatever happens, she's with me now, and her gentle touch quenches the wild fires burning within me.
  This is the enduring challenge facing libraries and museums: to create experiences that quench our desire for inquiry and community.
  Later, a trip alongside the Black Sea helped quench Sorokin's inexhaustible desire to travel.
  That was 30 years ago and strangely enough it didn't quench my thirst for Indian meals and I've had many since then - but never as hot as that vindaloo.
  The then Preston manager, David Moyes, made sure that was possible, taking him to Deepdale, where he quenched his thirst for further development.
  Human taste requires variety and something should be done to quench this yearning for variety in the desert they are wandering in.
  The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks.
  When he could not quench his academic thirst here, he went to Darul Uloom Deoband, the biggest Islamic Centre of learning in India and studied there for four years.
  Enroute, he quenched his thirst for academics by acquiring a doctorate degree in Industrial Management from IIT-M.
  The ladies were spotted at El Tiempo, where Sharon quenched her Tex-Mex cravings, and at Trellis Spa at the Houstonian, where they indulged in massages.
  To quench her thirst for knowledge, Dai Yanqin, who has eight years of administrative experience in the East China Bureau of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, is preparing for further study.
  The desire for a better life is not easily quenched.
  People try various ways to quench their spiritual thirst and to satisfy their soul's hunger and thirst.
  The São Paolo crash did not quench Hellé's racing ambitions.
  At this stage - after five trophies the year before last, and a second-placed, 80-point finish last season - only one trophy can fully quench the local thirst.
  Synonyms
  satisfy, slake, sate, satiate, gratify, relieve, assuage, take the edge off, appease, meet, fulfil, indulge
  lessen, deaden, decrease, lower, reduce, diminish, curb, check, still, damp
  suppress, extinguish, smother, stifle, overcome
2Extinguish (a fire)
扑灭；熄灭（火）
firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames
消防队员拖着水龙带拼命扑救大火。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sasha's father was one of the 70000 conscripts ordered in to bring in sand to quench the belching nuclear fires.
- The brave Kiltegan man grabbed jugs of water and eventually quenched the chip-pan fire which had threatened to reduce the house to ashes.
- With the sea flowing around it and finally quenching its flames, the simple cairn takes on a metaphorical significance linking mankind to the elemental with a real sense of pathos and mutability.
- Accompanied by the local Fire Brigade, the Gardaí promptly arrived in Luí na Gréine and after a short period of time, members of the Fire Brigade managed to quench the flames.
- Lives have been lost not because of the gravity of the infernos but because of lack of facilities to quench the flames, and generally due to inadequate safety measures.
- Neighbouring houses weren't in danger, according to the Fire Service, but it did take a long time to quench the flames, which had ravaged through the whole house.
- The fire, which broke out in a house close to the new Fossa GAA headquarters, was quickly brought under control and the unit returned to the scene at Gattabawn to continue the efforts to quench the forest blaze.
- A crew from Acomb - also in uniform - arrived promptly to quench the flames before anyone was hurt.
- The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire.
- The solution thus lies in a national programme to equip all fire stations countrywide so that these men and women who have to contend with fires to what they are paid to do - quench fires, protect property and save lives.
- The couple used domestic fire extinguishers to quench the flames in the Georgian house on the Lee Road.
- It happened almost every night, the neighborhoods too poor to pay for the fire teams to quench the flames, one at a time the last refuges of squatters were being cleared out.
- Workers reacted quickly, calling the fire brigade, although the fire was quenched using extinguishers, before the fire officers arrived.
- The fire fighters could not use the mains water to quench the flames because Mayo County Council had switched off the main supply due to a shortage in the area.
- On Tuesday the Fire Brigade were called to quench two fires which had been relit from the previous night.
- The fake emergency appeared almost real as fires were quenched and passengers brought to safety but thankfully the whole exercise was staged to ensure that the crews would be prepared should a disaster occur in the future.
- Betacarotene helps to quench the chemical fires started by free radicals, and helps to protect the skin from sunburn.
- Many years ago, my father told me that at the English College in Rome, young would-be priests were told about the pagan legend of the Salamander - the mythical lizard that walked into fire and quenched the flames by the power of its virtue.
- He did not recall the incident referred to but would have advised people regularly at the time to quench cigarettes as the prohibition on smoking had been introduced about that time.
- ‘I am so sorry, Lauren,’ Alan said to her as they watched a team of firefighters quench the flames.
Synonyms
extinguish, put out, snuff out, smother, douse, dampen down
1. 2.1 Stifle or suppress (a feeling)
  抑制，压制（感情）
  fury rose in him, but he quenched it
  他心中燃起怒火，但他压制着没发作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor.
  There are no easy games at this level and as Dom Corrigan searches for inspiration to quench the disappointment of two defeats at the hands of Laois and Down, supporters are wondering if this is to be the year of our demise at league level.
  I felt my anger rising and tried vainly to quench it, the flames tickling me, begging to be let loose upon the man I now hated most.
  He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity.
  Any hope of a recovery by Sligo Warriors was quickly quenched when they were held scoreless for almost the first four minutes of the last period.
  Even the terrifying thought of Max's hatred didn't quench her hopes.
  Ineffective efforts to quench anger may be due to the fact that other emotions are fueling its fire, so ask questions about what lead up to the child's anger and investigate anger's accomplices.
  I could think over what I felt towards him, to try and find a way to quench those irritating feelings that nagged consistently at my mind.
  You arrived confused, anxious to quench your curiosity at one of South Eastern Connecticut's top liberal arts colleges.
  And as she engrained scientific research upon so many students, she was able to continually quench her lifelong curiosity in scientific research through her program.
  In the worst of storms and in the rush of floodwaters, even the strongest faith can be tested, yet the scriptures assure us many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
  If the new constitution doesn't quench that passion, the framers will have done their job.
  Of course I merely suggested it to quench your curiosity.
  You can't quench and suppress the human spirit and the desire for freedom forever.
  By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench.
  Try being humble - quench the temper and keep in mind the wise advice of Confucius: Be nice, go far.
  Neither the substance of this world nor the swelling floods of death could quench our Saviour's love for us.
  But not even that realization could quench the outrage blazing at his core, and he stared at Sir Charrow, trapped between obedience, shame, and the fury which would not release him.
  But it would take more than a technical hitch to quench the Winkelman enthusiasm.
  Even more surprising is the way we quench our feelings of guilt.
2. 2.2dated Reduce (someone) to silence.
  〈旧〉使缄默，使沉默
  she quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue
  她不由分说地命令安妮闭嘴。
3Rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), especially in cold water or oil.
（尤指用冷水或油）将…淬火；使冷却
Example sentencesExamples
- The values given below have been obtained on tensile test specimens that were oil quenched from 830°C and tempered at 250°C.
- The parts were pulled from the 1,400-degree mix after soaking up the heat for up to an hour and then quenched in cold water.
- When cast steels are quenched and tempered, the range of strength and of toughness is broadened.
- After being annealed, the work metal is quenched in water to free it from particles of the salt mixture.
- Many of these are supported on folded steel plates which, like all the other visible steel in the building, have been oil quenched.
- In some instances the edge is time quenched; then the remainder of the tool is oil quenched for partial strengthening.
- After holding them for predetermined times at various temperatures they are finally quenched in water.
- All material was solution treated at 1000°F, and quenched in cold water.
- For many years, a simple press heat treatment has been practiced, in which the hot working served as the solution treatment and the hot worked product had to be rapidly quenched.
- After holding for selected periods of time, the specimens are withdrawn from the bath and rapidly quenched in cold water.
- If red hot steel is quenched in a hot decoction of mullein that preparation is useful for treating bleeding dysentery as well as increasing urination.
- Certain alloys that are relatively insensitive to cooling rate during quenching can be either air cooled or water quenched directly from a final hot working operation.
- Gray iron is usually quenched in salt, oil, or lead baths at 230 to 425°C for austempering.
- It is possible to quench similar steels from 1050°C to form a low carbon martensite or with lower carbon content, acicular ferrite followed by tempering to give higher properties.
- The subject parts can then be oil quenched to obtain a deeper effective and thus harder case than would have resulted from the carburizing process alone.
- She made a synthetic rock like the meteorite, heated it to 200°C, then quenched it in water.
- The aluminum is heated to 550 degrees Celsius and must be quenched with water.
- The parts come out red hot and are quenched in a water bath.
- The steel is then quenched to the martensitic state and tempered at an appropriate temperature.
- When steel is quenched these volume changes occur very rapidly and unevenly throughout the specimen.
1. 3.1Electronics Physics Suppress or damp (an effect such as luminescence, or an oscillation or discharge).
  〔物理，电子〕猝熄；控制（发光、震动或放电等效果）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Binding of chelatable Fe gradually quenches fluorescence until a steady state level of fluorescence is reached.
  Although they cannot be distinguished in the absorbance spectra, the lower exciton states provide an efficient way to deactivate the upper singlet state and to quench fluorescence.
  These studies relied on the ability of both halothane and chloroform to effectively quench the fluorescence of W15 located in the hydrophobic core of the four- [alpha] helix bundle.
  It was proposed that the sulfur atoms would quench the fluorescence of these tryptophan residues, which appears to be the case.
  Stimulated emission with a beam that is red-shifted with respect to the excitation wavelength can quench the fluorescence of the excited molecules.

noun kwɛn(t)ʃkwɛn(t)ʃ

An act of quenching a very hot substance.
淬火
Example sentencesExamples
- The magnet was then slowly but steadily trained upward in field strength until, after 13 quenches, it reached 11.14 Tesla.
- The effectiveness of the quench will depend primarily on two factors: the geometry of the specimen, and the composition of the steel.
- Combinations of elements can be chosen so that the volume change is reduced and also the risk of quench cracking.
- Decay rates were obtained from counting rates by using an external standard and a quench calibration curve.
- It should be noted, however, that this is not altogether advantageous, since the direction, as well as the magnitude, of the stress existing after the quench, is important in relation to cracking.
- The front end of the tank features a quench chamber to precool the tubing and seal the vacuum compartment, and a vacuum sizing sleeve is mounted on the entrance within a water well to provide a film of water on the tube as it enters the tank.
- Counts were standardized with a quench curve and expressed in dpm.
- ‘Congratulations Alex,’ Torik told her as he fished the cooled casting mold out of the quench bucket.
- If maximum properties are required, the heat treatment consists of a solution treatment at high temperature followed by a quench and then natural or artificial aging.
- When high hardness and wear resistance are the ultimate aim of this treatment, the temperature of the quench bath is usually held between 230 and 290°C.
- The other way for classifying tool steels is according to the type of quench required to harden the steel.
- A combination of quench rate and the presence of subgrains or hot working structure can influence strength.
- The ‘colors’ come during the quench process and while they may not add to the functional utility of the rifle, they add greatly to its appeal.
- A large number of small part ides are able to form during the quench from the solution-treating temperature and on the subsequent low-temperature precipitation heat treatment.
- Gases flow from the secondary combustion chamber through the quench chamber, and then through air pollution control devices to remove acid gases and particulates.
- Similar structures are often observed in lower carbon steels as quenched, as a result of the formation of Fe 3 C during the quench.

Derivatives

quenchable

adjective ˈkwɛn(t)ʃəb(ə)lˈkwɛn(t)ʃəb(ə)l

Clearly, quenchable free radicals are the primary source of plasmid nicking in the purified solutions.
Example sentencesExamples
- His religion, together with a barely quenchable self-belief, regardless of the difficulties he faced, brought ‘an almost amoral’ quality to his life.
- The inverse of the y-intercept in Fig.4 B is indicative of the quenchable fraction of fluorophores.
- Those who do will hear about people with an insatiable but never quenchable longing for the other, such as Feuer Und Wasser (Fire and Water), the power of primeval instincts of Zerstoren and fatal misunderstandings in Spring.
- The stability of sterol-enriched domains in mixed lipid bilayers was studied by determining the fraction of CTL emission that was quenchable by 12SLPC (a quencher located outside the L o domains) as a function of temperature.

quencher

noun ˈkwɛn(t)ʃəˈkwɛn(t)ʃər

1A refreshing drink.
a great-tasting quencher without the calories
Example sentencesExamples
- It is clearly indicated from Tables 1 and 2 that k q values do not correlate with the pK b values of the amine quenchers.
- We used two dibromo lipids as quenchers.
- Upon primer-mediated DNA synthesis of the gene targets, the scorpion probes hybridize to the newly formed complementary sequences, separating the fluorescent reporters from the quenchers thus restoring the fluorescence.
- these species are efficient fluorescence quenchers
2Physics Electronics
A device or substance that suppresses an effect such as luminescence.

quenchless

adjective ˈkwɛn(t)ʃləsˈkwɛn(t)ʃləs

literary

Unable to be stifled or subdued.
an unspeakable, quenchless joy
Example sentencesExamples
- For much of this time he was tired and in poor health, but a characteristic zest for life and a quenchless curiosity never deserted him; to a packed audience in a seminar in Urbana in the spring of 1984 he spoke about mathematical economics.
- In the angle of the obdurate outthrust jaw, buckwheat-flecked from the morning meal, one read quenchless resolve, a nature scornful of compromise and dedicated to squeezing the last nickel out of any enterprise.
- With a quenchless and intense desire, he prayed that they might be brought into the fold.

Origin

Old English -cwencan (in acwencan 'put out, extinguish'), of Germanic origin.

Rhymes

backbench, bench, blench, clench, Dench, drench, entrench, French, frontbench, stench, tench, trench, wench, wrench

Definition of quench in US English:

quench

verbkwen(t)SHkwɛn(t)ʃ

[with object]

1Satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking.
（喝水）止（渴）
Example sentencesExamples
- But the rest of you, squandering money to quench your thirst with a drink more expensive than petrol, you're just weak-willed and wet.
- After we had quenched our thirst, we headed off back for Swinford.
- But with high chances of dehydration in this hot and dry weather, which will only continue to intensify in March and April, these refreshment stalls are a quick fix to quench your thirst.
- On the way back, we stopped at that McDonald's, just to get frozen drinks to quench our thirsts.
- He no longer quenches his thirst by drinking sodas.
- You could drink it, but it doesn't quench thirst in the least, and it has a slightly bitter taste.
- But once we've quenched our thirst, having just ended a cross-town walk, we're more interested in food than booze.
- Lying outside the hurricane belt, it receives little rain and must rely on the largest desalination plant in the world to quench the thirst of its population of 150,000.
- We moved back to the bar joking and laughing, and ordered drinks to quench our thirst.
- He felt so grateful for the simple taste of a few gulps of water that he sat back to enjoy the way it had quenched his thirst.
- A few glasses of the juice quenches thirst and satisfies hunger, said Elis.
- Harvard School of Public Health professor Grace Wyshak recently found that ninth and 10 th-grade girls who sipped soda were three times more likely to break bones than those who quenched their thirsts with other drinks.
- The sizzling sunshine made it a bumper day for the publicans and stallholders with horse traders rushing to quench their thirst at regular intervals.
- The cast of Frasier were rebuked for ‘consuming very large ice cream cones’ and drinking alcohol to quench their thirst after exercise.
- It leaves your mouth so coated that nothing quenches your thirst, and your fingers so oily that you dare touch nothing of value for hours.
- We walked under deep blue skies, quenched our thirst from mountain streams and lakes, fought off horses that thought they had more right than us to our lunch, collected herbs and revelled in the magnificent scenery.
- Give people great drinks that quench their thirst and spark their imagination.
- A friendly efficient staff is happy to help you quench your thirst by bringing you a drink from the fully stocked bar.
- On Saturday night, the visitors paid a visit to a traditional Irish music session in Clancy's Pub on Leinster Street, where, after their long walk they quenched their thirst with pints of Guinness and Irish malt.
- Two deer had come to drink, one keeping watch while the other quenched its thirst.
Synonyms
fulfil, gratify, meet, fill, serve, provide for, supply
1. 1.1 Satisfy (a desire)
  满足（欲望）
  he only pursued her to quench an aching need
  他追求她仅仅是为了满足难耐的需要。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks.
  I was in love you see, that dizzy, heady, heart wrenching type of love that has a tendency to afflict youths and cause them to go to great lengths to quench their desire and possess that which they crave.
  People try various ways to quench their spiritual thirst and to satisfy their soul's hunger and thirst.
  To quench her thirst for knowledge, Dai Yanqin, who has eight years of administrative experience in the East China Bureau of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, is preparing for further study.
  The desire for a better life is not easily quenched.
  The then Preston manager, David Moyes, made sure that was possible, taking him to Deepdale, where he quenched his thirst for further development.
  Later, a trip alongside the Black Sea helped quench Sorokin's inexhaustible desire to travel.
  Then at least I could get angry, and that might have helped quench this burning desire.
  This is the enduring challenge facing libraries and museums: to create experiences that quench our desire for inquiry and community.
  With these books, her uncle hoped to quench her desire for adventure, but he only increased it.
  Enroute, he quenched his thirst for academics by acquiring a doctorate degree in Industrial Management from IIT-M.
  Human taste requires variety and something should be done to quench this yearning for variety in the desert they are wandering in.
  When he could not quench his academic thirst here, he went to Darul Uloom Deoband, the biggest Islamic Centre of learning in India and studied there for four years.
  We need time to indulge in the things that we like doing purely for our own gratification once in a while to remind us that we, too, exist and need to quench certain desires.
  The São Paolo crash did not quench Hellé's racing ambitions.
  Whatever happens, she's with me now, and her gentle touch quenches the wild fires burning within me.
  That was 30 years ago and strangely enough it didn't quench my thirst for Indian meals and I've had many since then - but never as hot as that vindaloo.
  At this stage - after five trophies the year before last, and a second-placed, 80-point finish last season - only one trophy can fully quench the local thirst.
  To quench the thirst for power, Datang Power has applied to raise up to 6 billion yuan by selling one billion A shares to fund expansion of 10 power plants.
  The ladies were spotted at El Tiempo, where Sharon quenched her Tex-Mex cravings, and at Trellis Spa at the Houstonian, where they indulged in massages.
  Synonyms
  satisfy, slake, sate, satiate, gratify, relieve, assuage, take the edge off, appease, meet, fulfil, indulge
2Extinguish (a fire)
扑灭；熄灭（火）
firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames
消防队员拖着水龙带拼命扑救大火。
Example sentencesExamples
- The fire fighters could not use the mains water to quench the flames because Mayo County Council had switched off the main supply due to a shortage in the area.
- The solution thus lies in a national programme to equip all fire stations countrywide so that these men and women who have to contend with fires to what they are paid to do - quench fires, protect property and save lives.
- Workers reacted quickly, calling the fire brigade, although the fire was quenched using extinguishers, before the fire officers arrived.
- He did not recall the incident referred to but would have advised people regularly at the time to quench cigarettes as the prohibition on smoking had been introduced about that time.
- Neighbouring houses weren't in danger, according to the Fire Service, but it did take a long time to quench the flames, which had ravaged through the whole house.
- A crew from Acomb - also in uniform - arrived promptly to quench the flames before anyone was hurt.
- The fire, which broke out in a house close to the new Fossa GAA headquarters, was quickly brought under control and the unit returned to the scene at Gattabawn to continue the efforts to quench the forest blaze.
- The brave Kiltegan man grabbed jugs of water and eventually quenched the chip-pan fire which had threatened to reduce the house to ashes.
- The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire.
- It happened almost every night, the neighborhoods too poor to pay for the fire teams to quench the flames, one at a time the last refuges of squatters were being cleared out.
- Betacarotene helps to quench the chemical fires started by free radicals, and helps to protect the skin from sunburn.
- Many years ago, my father told me that at the English College in Rome, young would-be priests were told about the pagan legend of the Salamander - the mythical lizard that walked into fire and quenched the flames by the power of its virtue.
- Sasha's father was one of the 70000 conscripts ordered in to bring in sand to quench the belching nuclear fires.
- The fake emergency appeared almost real as fires were quenched and passengers brought to safety but thankfully the whole exercise was staged to ensure that the crews would be prepared should a disaster occur in the future.
- ‘I am so sorry, Lauren,’ Alan said to her as they watched a team of firefighters quench the flames.
- The couple used domestic fire extinguishers to quench the flames in the Georgian house on the Lee Road.
- On Tuesday the Fire Brigade were called to quench two fires which had been relit from the previous night.
- With the sea flowing around it and finally quenching its flames, the simple cairn takes on a metaphorical significance linking mankind to the elemental with a real sense of pathos and mutability.
- Lives have been lost not because of the gravity of the infernos but because of lack of facilities to quench the flames, and generally due to inadequate safety measures.
- Accompanied by the local Fire Brigade, the Gardaí promptly arrived in Luí na Gréine and after a short period of time, members of the Fire Brigade managed to quench the flames.
Synonyms
extinguish, put out, snuff out, smother, douse, dampen down
1. 2.1 Stifle or suppress (a feeling)
  抑制，压制（感情）
  fury rose in him, but he quenched it
  他心中燃起怒火，但他压制着没发作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity.
  I felt my anger rising and tried vainly to quench it, the flames tickling me, begging to be let loose upon the man I now hated most.
  Try being humble - quench the temper and keep in mind the wise advice of Confucius: Be nice, go far.
  By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench.
  Even the terrifying thought of Max's hatred didn't quench her hopes.
  In the worst of storms and in the rush of floodwaters, even the strongest faith can be tested, yet the scriptures assure us many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
  I could think over what I felt towards him, to try and find a way to quench those irritating feelings that nagged consistently at my mind.
  Neither the substance of this world nor the swelling floods of death could quench our Saviour's love for us.
  The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor.
  There are no easy games at this level and as Dom Corrigan searches for inspiration to quench the disappointment of two defeats at the hands of Laois and Down, supporters are wondering if this is to be the year of our demise at league level.
  Even more surprising is the way we quench our feelings of guilt.
  But it would take more than a technical hitch to quench the Winkelman enthusiasm.
  You can't quench and suppress the human spirit and the desire for freedom forever.
  Ineffective efforts to quench anger may be due to the fact that other emotions are fueling its fire, so ask questions about what lead up to the child's anger and investigate anger's accomplices.
  And as she engrained scientific research upon so many students, she was able to continually quench her lifelong curiosity in scientific research through her program.
  Of course I merely suggested it to quench your curiosity.
  But not even that realization could quench the outrage blazing at his core, and he stared at Sir Charrow, trapped between obedience, shame, and the fury which would not release him.
  You arrived confused, anxious to quench your curiosity at one of South Eastern Connecticut's top liberal arts colleges.
  If the new constitution doesn't quench that passion, the framers will have done their job.
  Any hope of a recovery by Sligo Warriors was quickly quenched when they were held scoreless for almost the first four minutes of the last period.
3Rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), especially in cold water or oil.
（尤指用冷水或油）将…淬火；使冷却
Example sentencesExamples
- The steel is then quenched to the martensitic state and tempered at an appropriate temperature.
- Gray iron is usually quenched in salt, oil, or lead baths at 230 to 425°C for austempering.
- She made a synthetic rock like the meteorite, heated it to 200°C, then quenched it in water.
- When steel is quenched these volume changes occur very rapidly and unevenly throughout the specimen.
- The values given below have been obtained on tensile test specimens that were oil quenched from 830°C and tempered at 250°C.
- Many of these are supported on folded steel plates which, like all the other visible steel in the building, have been oil quenched.
- All material was solution treated at 1000°F, and quenched in cold water.
- If red hot steel is quenched in a hot decoction of mullein that preparation is useful for treating bleeding dysentery as well as increasing urination.
- Certain alloys that are relatively insensitive to cooling rate during quenching can be either air cooled or water quenched directly from a final hot working operation.
- After holding them for predetermined times at various temperatures they are finally quenched in water.
- For many years, a simple press heat treatment has been practiced, in which the hot working served as the solution treatment and the hot worked product had to be rapidly quenched.
- When cast steels are quenched and tempered, the range of strength and of toughness is broadened.
- After being annealed, the work metal is quenched in water to free it from particles of the salt mixture.
- The parts were pulled from the 1,400-degree mix after soaking up the heat for up to an hour and then quenched in cold water.
- In some instances the edge is time quenched; then the remainder of the tool is oil quenched for partial strengthening.
- It is possible to quench similar steels from 1050°C to form a low carbon martensite or with lower carbon content, acicular ferrite followed by tempering to give higher properties.
- The subject parts can then be oil quenched to obtain a deeper effective and thus harder case than would have resulted from the carburizing process alone.
- The aluminum is heated to 550 degrees Celsius and must be quenched with water.
- The parts come out red hot and are quenched in a water bath.
- After holding for selected periods of time, the specimens are withdrawn from the bath and rapidly quenched in cold water.
1. 3.1Electronics Physics Suppress or damp (an effect such as luminescence, or an oscillation or discharge).
  〔物理，电子〕猝熄；控制（发光、震动或放电等效果）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although they cannot be distinguished in the absorbance spectra, the lower exciton states provide an efficient way to deactivate the upper singlet state and to quench fluorescence.
  Stimulated emission with a beam that is red-shifted with respect to the excitation wavelength can quench the fluorescence of the excited molecules.
  It was proposed that the sulfur atoms would quench the fluorescence of these tryptophan residues, which appears to be the case.
  Binding of chelatable Fe gradually quenches fluorescence until a steady state level of fluorescence is reached.
  These studies relied on the ability of both halothane and chloroform to effectively quench the fluorescence of W15 located in the hydrophobic core of the four- [alpha] helix bundle.

nounkwen(t)SHkwɛn(t)ʃ

An act of quenching something very hot.
淬火
Example sentencesExamples
- A combination of quench rate and the presence of subgrains or hot working structure can influence strength.
- A large number of small part ides are able to form during the quench from the solution-treating temperature and on the subsequent low-temperature precipitation heat treatment.
- Gases flow from the secondary combustion chamber through the quench chamber, and then through air pollution control devices to remove acid gases and particulates.
- The front end of the tank features a quench chamber to precool the tubing and seal the vacuum compartment, and a vacuum sizing sleeve is mounted on the entrance within a water well to provide a film of water on the tube as it enters the tank.
- If maximum properties are required, the heat treatment consists of a solution treatment at high temperature followed by a quench and then natural or artificial aging.
- The ‘colors’ come during the quench process and while they may not add to the functional utility of the rifle, they add greatly to its appeal.
- Similar structures are often observed in lower carbon steels as quenched, as a result of the formation of Fe 3 C during the quench.
- It should be noted, however, that this is not altogether advantageous, since the direction, as well as the magnitude, of the stress existing after the quench, is important in relation to cracking.
- Counts were standardized with a quench curve and expressed in dpm.
- When high hardness and wear resistance are the ultimate aim of this treatment, the temperature of the quench bath is usually held between 230 and 290°C.
- Decay rates were obtained from counting rates by using an external standard and a quench calibration curve.
- The magnet was then slowly but steadily trained upward in field strength until, after 13 quenches, it reached 11.14 Tesla.
- The effectiveness of the quench will depend primarily on two factors: the geometry of the specimen, and the composition of the steel.
- Combinations of elements can be chosen so that the volume change is reduced and also the risk of quench cracking.
- ‘Congratulations Alex,’ Torik told her as he fished the cooled casting mold out of the quench bucket.
- The other way for classifying tool steels is according to the type of quench required to harden the steel.

Origin

Old English -cwencan (in acwencan ‘put out, extinguish’), of Germanic origin.

单词	quench
释义	Definition of quench in English: quench verb kwɛn(t)ʃkwɛn(t)ʃ [with object] 1Satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking. （喝水）止（渴） Example sentencesExamples You could drink it, but it doesn't quench thirst in the least, and it has a slightly bitter taste. We walked under deep blue skies, quenched our thirst from mountain streams and lakes, fought off horses that thought they had more right than us to our lunch, collected herbs and revelled in the magnificent scenery. It leaves your mouth so coated that nothing quenches your thirst, and your fingers so oily that you dare touch nothing of value for hours. But the rest of you, squandering money to quench your thirst with a drink more expensive than petrol, you're just weak-willed and wet. A friendly efficient staff is happy to help you quench your thirst by bringing you a drink from the fully stocked bar. On the way back, we stopped at that McDonald's, just to get frozen drinks to quench our thirsts. On Saturday night, the visitors paid a visit to a traditional Irish music session in Clancy's Pub on Leinster Street, where, after their long walk they quenched their thirst with pints of Guinness and Irish malt. We moved back to the bar joking and laughing, and ordered drinks to quench our thirst. Harvard School of Public Health professor Grace Wyshak recently found that ninth and 10 th-grade girls who sipped soda were three times more likely to break bones than those who quenched their thirsts with other drinks. The sizzling sunshine made it a bumper day for the publicans and stallholders with horse traders rushing to quench their thirst at regular intervals. The cast of Frasier were rebuked for ‘consuming very large ice cream cones’ and drinking alcohol to quench their thirst after exercise. Two deer had come to drink, one keeping watch while the other quenched its thirst. Lying outside the hurricane belt, it receives little rain and must rely on the largest desalination plant in the world to quench the thirst of its population of 150,000. Give people great drinks that quench their thirst and spark their imagination. He felt so grateful for the simple taste of a few gulps of water that he sat back to enjoy the way it had quenched his thirst. He no longer quenches his thirst by drinking sodas. A few glasses of the juice quenches thirst and satisfies hunger, said Elis. But once we've quenched our thirst, having just ended a cross-town walk, we're more interested in food than booze. After we had quenched our thirst, we headed off back for Swinford. But with high chances of dehydration in this hot and dry weather, which will only continue to intensify in March and April, these refreshment stalls are a quick fix to quench your thirst. Synonyms fulfil, gratify, meet, fill, serve, provide for, supply 1.1 Satisfy (a desire) 满足（欲望） he only pursued her to quench an aching need 他追求她仅仅是为了满足难耐的需要。 Example sentencesExamples Then at least I could get angry, and that might have helped quench this burning desire. We need time to indulge in the things that we like doing purely for our own gratification once in a while to remind us that we, too, exist and need to quench certain desires. I was in love you see, that dizzy, heady, heart wrenching type of love that has a tendency to afflict youths and cause them to go to great lengths to quench their desire and possess that which they crave. To quench the thirst for power, Datang Power has applied to raise up to 6 billion yuan by selling one billion A shares to fund expansion of 10 power plants. With these books, her uncle hoped to quench her desire for adventure, but he only increased it. Whatever happens, she's with me now, and her gentle touch quenches the wild fires burning within me. This is the enduring challenge facing libraries and museums: to create experiences that quench our desire for inquiry and community. Later, a trip alongside the Black Sea helped quench Sorokin's inexhaustible desire to travel. That was 30 years ago and strangely enough it didn't quench my thirst for Indian meals and I've had many since then - but never as hot as that vindaloo. The then Preston manager, David Moyes, made sure that was possible, taking him to Deepdale, where he quenched his thirst for further development. Human taste requires variety and something should be done to quench this yearning for variety in the desert they are wandering in. The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks. When he could not quench his academic thirst here, he went to Darul Uloom Deoband, the biggest Islamic Centre of learning in India and studied there for four years. Enroute, he quenched his thirst for academics by acquiring a doctorate degree in Industrial Management from IIT-M. The ladies were spotted at El Tiempo, where Sharon quenched her Tex-Mex cravings, and at Trellis Spa at the Houstonian, where they indulged in massages. To quench her thirst for knowledge, Dai Yanqin, who has eight years of administrative experience in the East China Bureau of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, is preparing for further study. The desire for a better life is not easily quenched. People try various ways to quench their spiritual thirst and to satisfy their soul's hunger and thirst. The São Paolo crash did not quench Hellé's racing ambitions. At this stage - after five trophies the year before last, and a second-placed, 80-point finish last season - only one trophy can fully quench the local thirst. Synonyms satisfy, slake, sate, satiate, gratify, relieve, assuage, take the edge off, appease, meet, fulfil, indulge lessen, deaden, decrease, lower, reduce, diminish, curb, check, still, damp suppress, extinguish, smother, stifle, overcome 2Extinguish (a fire) 扑灭；熄灭（火） firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames 消防队员拖着水龙带拼命扑救大火。 Example sentencesExamples Sasha's father was one of the 70000 conscripts ordered in to bring in sand to quench the belching nuclear fires. The brave Kiltegan man grabbed jugs of water and eventually quenched the chip-pan fire which had threatened to reduce the house to ashes. With the sea flowing around it and finally quenching its flames, the simple cairn takes on a metaphorical significance linking mankind to the elemental with a real sense of pathos and mutability. Accompanied by the local Fire Brigade, the Gardaí promptly arrived in Luí na Gréine and after a short period of time, members of the Fire Brigade managed to quench the flames. Lives have been lost not because of the gravity of the infernos but because of lack of facilities to quench the flames, and generally due to inadequate safety measures. Neighbouring houses weren't in danger, according to the Fire Service, but it did take a long time to quench the flames, which had ravaged through the whole house. The fire, which broke out in a house close to the new Fossa GAA headquarters, was quickly brought under control and the unit returned to the scene at Gattabawn to continue the efforts to quench the forest blaze. A crew from Acomb - also in uniform - arrived promptly to quench the flames before anyone was hurt. The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire. The solution thus lies in a national programme to equip all fire stations countrywide so that these men and women who have to contend with fires to what they are paid to do - quench fires, protect property and save lives. The couple used domestic fire extinguishers to quench the flames in the Georgian house on the Lee Road. It happened almost every night, the neighborhoods too poor to pay for the fire teams to quench the flames, one at a time the last refuges of squatters were being cleared out. Workers reacted quickly, calling the fire brigade, although the fire was quenched using extinguishers, before the fire officers arrived. The fire fighters could not use the mains water to quench the flames because Mayo County Council had switched off the main supply due to a shortage in the area. On Tuesday the Fire Brigade were called to quench two fires which had been relit from the previous night. The fake emergency appeared almost real as fires were quenched and passengers brought to safety but thankfully the whole exercise was staged to ensure that the crews would be prepared should a disaster occur in the future. Betacarotene helps to quench the chemical fires started by free radicals, and helps to protect the skin from sunburn. Many years ago, my father told me that at the English College in Rome, young would-be priests were told about the pagan legend of the Salamander - the mythical lizard that walked into fire and quenched the flames by the power of its virtue. He did not recall the incident referred to but would have advised people regularly at the time to quench cigarettes as the prohibition on smoking had been introduced about that time. ‘I am so sorry, Lauren,’ Alan said to her as they watched a team of firefighters quench the flames. Synonyms extinguish, put out, snuff out, smother, douse, dampen down 2.1 Stifle or suppress (a feeling) 抑制，压制（感情） fury rose in him, but he quenched it 他心中燃起怒火，但他压制着没发作。 Example sentencesExamples The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor. There are no easy games at this level and as Dom Corrigan searches for inspiration to quench the disappointment of two defeats at the hands of Laois and Down, supporters are wondering if this is to be the year of our demise at league level. I felt my anger rising and tried vainly to quench it, the flames tickling me, begging to be let loose upon the man I now hated most. He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity. Any hope of a recovery by Sligo Warriors was quickly quenched when they were held scoreless for almost the first four minutes of the last period. Even the terrifying thought of Max's hatred didn't quench her hopes. Ineffective efforts to quench anger may be due to the fact that other emotions are fueling its fire, so ask questions about what lead up to the child's anger and investigate anger's accomplices. I could think over what I felt towards him, to try and find a way to quench those irritating feelings that nagged consistently at my mind. You arrived confused, anxious to quench your curiosity at one of South Eastern Connecticut's top liberal arts colleges. And as she engrained scientific research upon so many students, she was able to continually quench her lifelong curiosity in scientific research through her program. In the worst of storms and in the rush of floodwaters, even the strongest faith can be tested, yet the scriptures assure us many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. If the new constitution doesn't quench that passion, the framers will have done their job. Of course I merely suggested it to quench your curiosity. You can't quench and suppress the human spirit and the desire for freedom forever. By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench. Try being humble - quench the temper and keep in mind the wise advice of Confucius: Be nice, go far. Neither the substance of this world nor the swelling floods of death could quench our Saviour's love for us. But not even that realization could quench the outrage blazing at his core, and he stared at Sir Charrow, trapped between obedience, shame, and the fury which would not release him. But it would take more than a technical hitch to quench the Winkelman enthusiasm. Even more surprising is the way we quench our feelings of guilt. 2.2dated Reduce (someone) to silence. 〈旧〉使缄默，使沉默 she quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue 她不由分说地命令安妮闭嘴。 3Rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), especially in cold water or oil. （尤指用冷水或油）将…淬火；使冷却 Example sentencesExamples The values given below have been obtained on tensile test specimens that were oil quenched from 830°C and tempered at 250°C. The parts were pulled from the 1,400-degree mix after soaking up the heat for up to an hour and then quenched in cold water. When cast steels are quenched and tempered, the range of strength and of toughness is broadened. After being annealed, the work metal is quenched in water to free it from particles of the salt mixture. Many of these are supported on folded steel plates which, like all the other visible steel in the building, have been oil quenched. In some instances the edge is time quenched; then the remainder of the tool is oil quenched for partial strengthening. After holding them for predetermined times at various temperatures they are finally quenched in water. All material was solution treated at 1000°F, and quenched in cold water. For many years, a simple press heat treatment has been practiced, in which the hot working served as the solution treatment and the hot worked product had to be rapidly quenched. After holding for selected periods of time, the specimens are withdrawn from the bath and rapidly quenched in cold water. If red hot steel is quenched in a hot decoction of mullein that preparation is useful for treating bleeding dysentery as well as increasing urination. Certain alloys that are relatively insensitive to cooling rate during quenching can be either air cooled or water quenched directly from a final hot working operation. Gray iron is usually quenched in salt, oil, or lead baths at 230 to 425°C for austempering. It is possible to quench similar steels from 1050°C to form a low carbon martensite or with lower carbon content, acicular ferrite followed by tempering to give higher properties. The subject parts can then be oil quenched to obtain a deeper effective and thus harder case than would have resulted from the carburizing process alone. She made a synthetic rock like the meteorite, heated it to 200°C, then quenched it in water. The aluminum is heated to 550 degrees Celsius and must be quenched with water. The parts come out red hot and are quenched in a water bath. The steel is then quenched to the martensitic state and tempered at an appropriate temperature. When steel is quenched these volume changes occur very rapidly and unevenly throughout the specimen. 3.1Electronics Physics Suppress or damp (an effect such as luminescence, or an oscillation or discharge). 〔物理，电子〕猝熄；控制（发光、震动或放电等效果） Example sentencesExamples Binding of chelatable Fe gradually quenches fluorescence until a steady state level of fluorescence is reached. Although they cannot be distinguished in the absorbance spectra, the lower exciton states provide an efficient way to deactivate the upper singlet state and to quench fluorescence. These studies relied on the ability of both halothane and chloroform to effectively quench the fluorescence of W15 located in the hydrophobic core of the four- [alpha] helix bundle. It was proposed that the sulfur atoms would quench the fluorescence of these tryptophan residues, which appears to be the case. Stimulated emission with a beam that is red-shifted with respect to the excitation wavelength can quench the fluorescence of the excited molecules. noun kwɛn(t)ʃkwɛn(t)ʃ An act of quenching a very hot substance. 淬火 Example sentencesExamples The magnet was then slowly but steadily trained upward in field strength until, after 13 quenches, it reached 11.14 Tesla. The effectiveness of the quench will depend primarily on two factors: the geometry of the specimen, and the composition of the steel. Combinations of elements can be chosen so that the volume change is reduced and also the risk of quench cracking. Decay rates were obtained from counting rates by using an external standard and a quench calibration curve. It should be noted, however, that this is not altogether advantageous, since the direction, as well as the magnitude, of the stress existing after the quench, is important in relation to cracking. The front end of the tank features a quench chamber to precool the tubing and seal the vacuum compartment, and a vacuum sizing sleeve is mounted on the entrance within a water well to provide a film of water on the tube as it enters the tank. Counts were standardized with a quench curve and expressed in dpm. ‘Congratulations Alex,’ Torik told her as he fished the cooled casting mold out of the quench bucket. If maximum properties are required, the heat treatment consists of a solution treatment at high temperature followed by a quench and then natural or artificial aging. When high hardness and wear resistance are the ultimate aim of this treatment, the temperature of the quench bath is usually held between 230 and 290°C. The other way for classifying tool steels is according to the type of quench required to harden the steel. A combination of quench rate and the presence of subgrains or hot working structure can influence strength. The ‘colors’ come during the quench process and while they may not add to the functional utility of the rifle, they add greatly to its appeal. A large number of small part ides are able to form during the quench from the solution-treating temperature and on the subsequent low-temperature precipitation heat treatment. Gases flow from the secondary combustion chamber through the quench chamber, and then through air pollution control devices to remove acid gases and particulates. Similar structures are often observed in lower carbon steels as quenched, as a result of the formation of Fe 3 C during the quench. Derivatives quenchable adjective ˈkwɛn(t)ʃəb(ə)lˈkwɛn(t)ʃəb(ə)l Clearly, quenchable free radicals are the primary source of plasmid nicking in the purified solutions. Example sentencesExamples His religion, together with a barely quenchable self-belief, regardless of the difficulties he faced, brought ‘an almost amoral’ quality to his life. The inverse of the y-intercept in Fig.4 B is indicative of the quenchable fraction of fluorophores. Those who do will hear about people with an insatiable but never quenchable longing for the other, such as Feuer Und Wasser (Fire and Water), the power of primeval instincts of Zerstoren and fatal misunderstandings in Spring. The stability of sterol-enriched domains in mixed lipid bilayers was studied by determining the fraction of CTL emission that was quenchable by 12SLPC (a quencher located outside the L o domains) as a function of temperature. quencher noun ˈkwɛn(t)ʃəˈkwɛn(t)ʃər 1A refreshing drink. a great-tasting quencher without the calories Example sentencesExamples It is clearly indicated from Tables 1 and 2 that k q values do not correlate with the pK b values of the amine quenchers. We used two dibromo lipids as quenchers. Upon primer-mediated DNA synthesis of the gene targets, the scorpion probes hybridize to the newly formed complementary sequences, separating the fluorescent reporters from the quenchers thus restoring the fluorescence. these species are efficient fluorescence quenchers 2Physics Electronics A device or substance that suppresses an effect such as luminescence. quenchless adjective ˈkwɛn(t)ʃləsˈkwɛn(t)ʃləs literary Unable to be stifled or subdued. an unspeakable, quenchless joy Example sentencesExamples For much of this time he was tired and in poor health, but a characteristic zest for life and a quenchless curiosity never deserted him; to a packed audience in a seminar in Urbana in the spring of 1984 he spoke about mathematical economics. In the angle of the obdurate outthrust jaw, buckwheat-flecked from the morning meal, one read quenchless resolve, a nature scornful of compromise and dedicated to squeezing the last nickel out of any enterprise. With a quenchless and intense desire, he prayed that they might be brought into the fold. Origin Old English -cwencan (in acwencan 'put out, extinguish'), of Germanic origin. Rhymes backbench, bench, blench, clench, Dench, drench, entrench, French, frontbench, stench, tench, trench, wench, wrench Definition of quench in US English: quench verbkwen(t)SHkwɛn(t)ʃ [with object] 1Satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking. （喝水）止（渴） Example sentencesExamples But the rest of you, squandering money to quench your thirst with a drink more expensive than petrol, you're just weak-willed and wet. After we had quenched our thirst, we headed off back for Swinford. But with high chances of dehydration in this hot and dry weather, which will only continue to intensify in March and April, these refreshment stalls are a quick fix to quench your thirst. On the way back, we stopped at that McDonald's, just to get frozen drinks to quench our thirsts. He no longer quenches his thirst by drinking sodas. You could drink it, but it doesn't quench thirst in the least, and it has a slightly bitter taste. But once we've quenched our thirst, having just ended a cross-town walk, we're more interested in food than booze. Lying outside the hurricane belt, it receives little rain and must rely on the largest desalination plant in the world to quench the thirst of its population of 150,000. We moved back to the bar joking and laughing, and ordered drinks to quench our thirst. He felt so grateful for the simple taste of a few gulps of water that he sat back to enjoy the way it had quenched his thirst. A few glasses of the juice quenches thirst and satisfies hunger, said Elis. Harvard School of Public Health professor Grace Wyshak recently found that ninth and 10 th-grade girls who sipped soda were three times more likely to break bones than those who quenched their thirsts with other drinks. The sizzling sunshine made it a bumper day for the publicans and stallholders with horse traders rushing to quench their thirst at regular intervals. The cast of Frasier were rebuked for ‘consuming very large ice cream cones’ and drinking alcohol to quench their thirst after exercise. It leaves your mouth so coated that nothing quenches your thirst, and your fingers so oily that you dare touch nothing of value for hours. We walked under deep blue skies, quenched our thirst from mountain streams and lakes, fought off horses that thought they had more right than us to our lunch, collected herbs and revelled in the magnificent scenery. Give people great drinks that quench their thirst and spark their imagination. A friendly efficient staff is happy to help you quench your thirst by bringing you a drink from the fully stocked bar. On Saturday night, the visitors paid a visit to a traditional Irish music session in Clancy's Pub on Leinster Street, where, after their long walk they quenched their thirst with pints of Guinness and Irish malt. Two deer had come to drink, one keeping watch while the other quenched its thirst. Synonyms fulfil, gratify, meet, fill, serve, provide for, supply 1.1 Satisfy (a desire) 满足（欲望） he only pursued her to quench an aching need 他追求她仅仅是为了满足难耐的需要。 Example sentencesExamples The chasteberry (also called vitex) fruit was used for centuries to quench sexual desire, particularly in monks. I was in love you see, that dizzy, heady, heart wrenching type of love that has a tendency to afflict youths and cause them to go to great lengths to quench their desire and possess that which they crave. People try various ways to quench their spiritual thirst and to satisfy their soul's hunger and thirst. To quench her thirst for knowledge, Dai Yanqin, who has eight years of administrative experience in the East China Bureau of General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, is preparing for further study. The desire for a better life is not easily quenched. The then Preston manager, David Moyes, made sure that was possible, taking him to Deepdale, where he quenched his thirst for further development. Later, a trip alongside the Black Sea helped quench Sorokin's inexhaustible desire to travel. Then at least I could get angry, and that might have helped quench this burning desire. This is the enduring challenge facing libraries and museums: to create experiences that quench our desire for inquiry and community. With these books, her uncle hoped to quench her desire for adventure, but he only increased it. Enroute, he quenched his thirst for academics by acquiring a doctorate degree in Industrial Management from IIT-M. Human taste requires variety and something should be done to quench this yearning for variety in the desert they are wandering in. When he could not quench his academic thirst here, he went to Darul Uloom Deoband, the biggest Islamic Centre of learning in India and studied there for four years. We need time to indulge in the things that we like doing purely for our own gratification once in a while to remind us that we, too, exist and need to quench certain desires. The São Paolo crash did not quench Hellé's racing ambitions. Whatever happens, she's with me now, and her gentle touch quenches the wild fires burning within me. That was 30 years ago and strangely enough it didn't quench my thirst for Indian meals and I've had many since then - but never as hot as that vindaloo. At this stage - after five trophies the year before last, and a second-placed, 80-point finish last season - only one trophy can fully quench the local thirst. To quench the thirst for power, Datang Power has applied to raise up to 6 billion yuan by selling one billion A shares to fund expansion of 10 power plants. The ladies were spotted at El Tiempo, where Sharon quenched her Tex-Mex cravings, and at Trellis Spa at the Houstonian, where they indulged in massages. Synonyms satisfy, slake, sate, satiate, gratify, relieve, assuage, take the edge off, appease, meet, fulfil, indulge 2Extinguish (a fire) 扑灭；熄灭（火） firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames 消防队员拖着水龙带拼命扑救大火。 Example sentencesExamples The fire fighters could not use the mains water to quench the flames because Mayo County Council had switched off the main supply due to a shortage in the area. The solution thus lies in a national programme to equip all fire stations countrywide so that these men and women who have to contend with fires to what they are paid to do - quench fires, protect property and save lives. Workers reacted quickly, calling the fire brigade, although the fire was quenched using extinguishers, before the fire officers arrived. He did not recall the incident referred to but would have advised people regularly at the time to quench cigarettes as the prohibition on smoking had been introduced about that time. Neighbouring houses weren't in danger, according to the Fire Service, but it did take a long time to quench the flames, which had ravaged through the whole house. A crew from Acomb - also in uniform - arrived promptly to quench the flames before anyone was hurt. The fire, which broke out in a house close to the new Fossa GAA headquarters, was quickly brought under control and the unit returned to the scene at Gattabawn to continue the efforts to quench the forest blaze. The brave Kiltegan man grabbed jugs of water and eventually quenched the chip-pan fire which had threatened to reduce the house to ashes. The intense thunderstorm will quench the fires before they become wildfires and will dislodge the weaker numbers and prepare them for the next fire. It happened almost every night, the neighborhoods too poor to pay for the fire teams to quench the flames, one at a time the last refuges of squatters were being cleared out. Betacarotene helps to quench the chemical fires started by free radicals, and helps to protect the skin from sunburn. Many years ago, my father told me that at the English College in Rome, young would-be priests were told about the pagan legend of the Salamander - the mythical lizard that walked into fire and quenched the flames by the power of its virtue. Sasha's father was one of the 70000 conscripts ordered in to bring in sand to quench the belching nuclear fires. The fake emergency appeared almost real as fires were quenched and passengers brought to safety but thankfully the whole exercise was staged to ensure that the crews would be prepared should a disaster occur in the future. ‘I am so sorry, Lauren,’ Alan said to her as they watched a team of firefighters quench the flames. The couple used domestic fire extinguishers to quench the flames in the Georgian house on the Lee Road. On Tuesday the Fire Brigade were called to quench two fires which had been relit from the previous night. With the sea flowing around it and finally quenching its flames, the simple cairn takes on a metaphorical significance linking mankind to the elemental with a real sense of pathos and mutability. Lives have been lost not because of the gravity of the infernos but because of lack of facilities to quench the flames, and generally due to inadequate safety measures. Accompanied by the local Fire Brigade, the Gardaí promptly arrived in Luí na Gréine and after a short period of time, members of the Fire Brigade managed to quench the flames. Synonyms extinguish, put out, snuff out, smother, douse, dampen down 2.1 Stifle or suppress (a feeling) 抑制，压制（感情） fury rose in him, but he quenched it 他心中燃起怒火，但他压制着没发作。 Example sentencesExamples He prefers to settle down after having quenched his curiosity. I felt my anger rising and tried vainly to quench it, the flames tickling me, begging to be let loose upon the man I now hated most. Try being humble - quench the temper and keep in mind the wise advice of Confucius: Be nice, go far. By exciting false hopes of an ill-defined peace, we only inflame passions we cannot quench. Even the terrifying thought of Max's hatred didn't quench her hopes. In the worst of storms and in the rush of floodwaters, even the strongest faith can be tested, yet the scriptures assure us many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. I could think over what I felt towards him, to try and find a way to quench those irritating feelings that nagged consistently at my mind. Neither the substance of this world nor the swelling floods of death could quench our Saviour's love for us. The insistence that hate could be entirely quenched was earlier explained as the flip side of loving your neighbor. There are no easy games at this level and as Dom Corrigan searches for inspiration to quench the disappointment of two defeats at the hands of Laois and Down, supporters are wondering if this is to be the year of our demise at league level. Even more surprising is the way we quench our feelings of guilt. But it would take more than a technical hitch to quench the Winkelman enthusiasm. You can't quench and suppress the human spirit and the desire for freedom forever. Ineffective efforts to quench anger may be due to the fact that other emotions are fueling its fire, so ask questions about what lead up to the child's anger and investigate anger's accomplices. And as she engrained scientific research upon so many students, she was able to continually quench her lifelong curiosity in scientific research through her program. Of course I merely suggested it to quench your curiosity. But not even that realization could quench the outrage blazing at his core, and he stared at Sir Charrow, trapped between obedience, shame, and the fury which would not release him. You arrived confused, anxious to quench your curiosity at one of South Eastern Connecticut's top liberal arts colleges. If the new constitution doesn't quench that passion, the framers will have done their job. Any hope of a recovery by Sligo Warriors was quickly quenched when they were held scoreless for almost the first four minutes of the last period. 3Rapidly cool (red-hot metal or other material), especially in cold water or oil. （尤指用冷水或油）将…淬火；使冷却 Example sentencesExamples The steel is then quenched to the martensitic state and tempered at an appropriate temperature. Gray iron is usually quenched in salt, oil, or lead baths at 230 to 425°C for austempering. She made a synthetic rock like the meteorite, heated it to 200°C, then quenched it in water. When steel is quenched these volume changes occur very rapidly and unevenly throughout the specimen. The values given below have been obtained on tensile test specimens that were oil quenched from 830°C and tempered at 250°C. Many of these are supported on folded steel plates which, like all the other visible steel in the building, have been oil quenched. All material was solution treated at 1000°F, and quenched in cold water. If red hot steel is quenched in a hot decoction of mullein that preparation is useful for treating bleeding dysentery as well as increasing urination. Certain alloys that are relatively insensitive to cooling rate during quenching can be either air cooled or water quenched directly from a final hot working operation. After holding them for predetermined times at various temperatures they are finally quenched in water. For many years, a simple press heat treatment has been practiced, in which the hot working served as the solution treatment and the hot worked product had to be rapidly quenched. When cast steels are quenched and tempered, the range of strength and of toughness is broadened. After being annealed, the work metal is quenched in water to free it from particles of the salt mixture. The parts were pulled from the 1,400-degree mix after soaking up the heat for up to an hour and then quenched in cold water. In some instances the edge is time quenched; then the remainder of the tool is oil quenched for partial strengthening. It is possible to quench similar steels from 1050°C to form a low carbon martensite or with lower carbon content, acicular ferrite followed by tempering to give higher properties. The subject parts can then be oil quenched to obtain a deeper effective and thus harder case than would have resulted from the carburizing process alone. The aluminum is heated to 550 degrees Celsius and must be quenched with water. The parts come out red hot and are quenched in a water bath. After holding for selected periods of time, the specimens are withdrawn from the bath and rapidly quenched in cold water. 3.1Electronics Physics Suppress or damp (an effect such as luminescence, or an oscillation or discharge). 〔物理，电子〕猝熄；控制（发光、震动或放电等效果） Example sentencesExamples Although they cannot be distinguished in the absorbance spectra, the lower exciton states provide an efficient way to deactivate the upper singlet state and to quench fluorescence. Stimulated emission with a beam that is red-shifted with respect to the excitation wavelength can quench the fluorescence of the excited molecules. It was proposed that the sulfur atoms would quench the fluorescence of these tryptophan residues, which appears to be the case. Binding of chelatable Fe gradually quenches fluorescence until a steady state level of fluorescence is reached. These studies relied on the ability of both halothane and chloroform to effectively quench the fluorescence of W15 located in the hydrophobic core of the four- [alpha] helix bundle. nounkwen(t)SHkwɛn(t)ʃ An act of quenching something very hot. 淬火 Example sentencesExamples A combination of quench rate and the presence of subgrains or hot working structure can influence strength. A large number of small part ides are able to form during the quench from the solution-treating temperature and on the subsequent low-temperature precipitation heat treatment. Gases flow from the secondary combustion chamber through the quench chamber, and then through air pollution control devices to remove acid gases and particulates. The front end of the tank features a quench chamber to precool the tubing and seal the vacuum compartment, and a vacuum sizing sleeve is mounted on the entrance within a water well to provide a film of water on the tube as it enters the tank. If maximum properties are required, the heat treatment consists of a solution treatment at high temperature followed by a quench and then natural or artificial aging. The ‘colors’ come during the quench process and while they may not add to the functional utility of the rifle, they add greatly to its appeal. Similar structures are often observed in lower carbon steels as quenched, as a result of the formation of Fe 3 C during the quench. It should be noted, however, that this is not altogether advantageous, since the direction, as well as the magnitude, of the stress existing after the quench, is important in relation to cracking. Counts were standardized with a quench curve and expressed in dpm. When high hardness and wear resistance are the ultimate aim of this treatment, the temperature of the quench bath is usually held between 230 and 290°C. Decay rates were obtained from counting rates by using an external standard and a quench calibration curve. The magnet was then slowly but steadily trained upward in field strength until, after 13 quenches, it reached 11.14 Tesla. The effectiveness of the quench will depend primarily on two factors: the geometry of the specimen, and the composition of the steel. Combinations of elements can be chosen so that the volume change is reduced and also the risk of quench cracking. ‘Congratulations Alex,’ Torik told her as he fished the cooled casting mold out of the quench bucket. The other way for classifying tool steels is according to the type of quench required to harden the steel. Origin Old English -cwencan (in acwencan ‘put out, extinguish’), of Germanic origin.
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