quenches in English

verb
1
satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking.
He no longer quenches his thirst by drinking sodas.
2
extinguish (a fire).
firemen hauled on hoses in a desperate bid to quench the flames
synonyms:extinguishput outsnuff outsmotherdouse
noun
1
an act of quenching something very hot.
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.
verb

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1. 13 Water afar quenches not fire.

2. Jesus is the water that quenches my thirst.

3. The method has been benchmarked against exact analytic results available in the literature on quantum quenches.

4. (12:9, The New American Bible) The Book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) agrees: “Water quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins.” —3:29, NAB.

5. A radiationless process obeying an Arrhenius law with an activation energy between 0.03 and 0.33 eV depending on the lattice, quenches the fluorescence at high temperature.

6. In the present invention, folic acid functions as a target ligand for cells, overexpressing a folic acid receptor, and quenches the optical properties of a fluorescent dye and a photosensitizer.