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English

1. 🔊 cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
   “quench steel”
2. 🔊 reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
3. 🔊 satisfy (thirst)
   “The cold water quenched his thirst”
4. 🔊 electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
5. 🔊 suppress or crush completely
   “squelch any sign of dissent”
6. 🔊 put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
   “Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained”

Spanish

1. 🔊 apagar quench, slake (thirst, etc.)
2. 🔊 calmar to quench, to quell (one's thirst)

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