Word Meanings - QUENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.

• CANDLEPOWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• Extinguishing
  of Extinguish
• Quenchable
  Capable of being quenched.
• FLAMECOLORED
  Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak.
• Burnisher
  One who burnishes.
• Extinguish
  To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
• Quencher
  One who, or that which, quenches.
• Burnoose
  Alt. of Burnous
• Extinguishable
  Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.
• Quenchless
  Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury.
• Extinguisher
  One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
• Burnstickle
  A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
• Extinguishment
  The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as, the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.

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