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:

  •Other relevant words:
  • Subduing,
  • Decimating,
  • stopping,
  • elimination,
  • extirpation,
  • discontinuation,
  • concealing,
  • prohibition,
  • smashing,
  • concealment,
  • calming,
  • Assuaging,
  • consuming,
  • suppress,
  • shut off,
  • sploshing,
  • squishing,
  • Alleviating,
  • dying,
  • suppression,
  • experimental extinction,
  • shut down,
  • control,
  • Muting,
  • Eradicating,
  • settlement,
  • preclusion,
  • squeezing,
  • dousing,
  • gentling,
  • Restraining,
  • defunctness,
  • check,
  • Suppressing,
  • obliteration,
  • hold back,
  • screening,
  • Mollifying,
  • halt,
  • choking,
  • throttling,
  • pacifying,
  • sloping,
  • Snuffing,
  • Interdicting,
  • obliterating,
  • Preventing,
  • extinguish,
  • censorship,
  • Extinguishment,
  • switch off,
  • repression,
  • crushing,
  • extinguished,
  • annihilating,
  • cut-off,
  • suffocating,
  • destruction,
  • Terminating,
  • switching,
  • expiration,
  • Blunting,
  • Squelching,
  • Precluding,
  • conciliating,
  • Obstructing,
  • cracking down on,
  • surcease,
  • Subdual,
  • Muffling,
  • cloying,
  • putting down,
  • withholding,
  • prevention,
  • hardening,
  • chilling,
  • cooling,
  • stifling,
  • Eliminating,
  • Prohibiting,
  • restraint,
  • slacking,
  • Destroying,
  • extermination,
  • Quashing,
  • Palliating,
  • abating,
  • easing,
  • Ceasing,
  • forbidding,
  • put out,
  • killing,
  • placating,
  • stop,
  • die out,
  • Exterminating,
  • interdiction,
  • smothering,
  • turn off,
  • death,
  • Fulfilling,
  • strangling,
  • annihilation,
  • end,
  • quench,
  • Mashing,
  • censoring,
  • forbiddance,
  • splashing,
  • controlling,
  • cutting off,
  • crack,
  • cessation,
  • checkpoint,
  • sloshing,
  • Removing,
  • Discontinuing,
  • stamp out,
  • quelling,
  • deadening,
  • devastation,
  • deactivation,
  • Damping,
  • Silencing,
  • hiding,
  • repressing,
  • snuff out,
  • Quieting,
  • obstruction,
  • blocking,
  • hindering,
  • crack down,
  • Checking,
  • halting,
  • liquidation,
  • put-down.

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.