quench

Definitions

• (transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
• (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
• (transitive) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
• (transitive) To terminate or greatly diminish by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
• (transitive) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.