Definition for Quenching:

• Act of one who quenches; that which quenches.

Synonyms for Quenching:

• n.

  •appeasement (noun)
  • propitiations,
  • quietings,
  • quenchings,
  • quellings,
  • re-conciliation,
  • re conciliation,
  • mollifications,
  • accedings,
  • bluntings,
  • re-conciliations,
  • lullings,
  • re conciliations,
  • soothings,
  • tranquilizations.
  •extinction (noun)
  • extinction.
  •extinguishing (noun)
  • extinguishing.

• v.

  •satisfying (verb)
  • stuffing,
  • satisfying,
  • Slaking,
  • Gorging,
  • Glutting,
  • Sating,
  • Saturating,
  • Engorging,
  • Allaying,
  • Satiating,
  • filling,
  • gratifying,
  • appeasing.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • appeasement,
  • conclusion,
  • ending,
  • lessening,
  • mollification,
  • photochemistry,
  • placation,
  • propitiation,
  • soothing,
  • termination,
  • Tranquilization,
  • placations,
  • easings.

Paraphrases for Quenching:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    quench.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    quench.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    cooling, extinction, disablement, sequestration, scavenging, termination, capture, suppression.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    deactivating, Suppressing, Capturing, disabling.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    de-activation.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deactivation.

Quenching Sentence Examples:

• When quitting fires at night, never leave a burning stick across the andirons, nor on its end, without quenching it.

• For though there is no name or fame in a woman's punishment, nor honour in the victory, yet shall I have praise in quenching a guilty life and exacting a just recompense; and it will be good to fill my soul with the flame of vengeance, and satisfy the ashes of my people.