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QUENCHING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does quenching mean?
• QUENCHING (noun)
The noun QUENCHING has 1 sense:
1. the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
Familiarity information: QUENCHING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
extinction; extinguishing; quenching
Context example:
the extinction of the lights
Hypernyms ("quenching" is a kind of...):
conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)
Derivation:
quench (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights)
Context examples
We supped and camped at the very edge of the cliff, quenching our thirst with two bottles of Apollinaris which were in one of the cases.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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