English-French translations for quench

• apaiser
• désaltérer
• étancher
  Les systèmes politiques peuvent soumettre les volontés et éteindre l’individualité, mais ils ne peuvent jamais étancher le désir d’être libre. Political systems can subjugate wills and extinguish individuality but they can never quench the desire to be free.
• éteindre
  Les systèmes politiques peuvent soumettre les volontés et éteindre l’individualité, mais ils ne peuvent jamais étancher le désir d’être libre. Political systems can subjugate wills and extinguish individuality but they can never quench the desire to be free.
• rassasier
• satisfaire
• tremper

Definition of quench

• To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst
• To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light
• To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron
• To terminate or greatly diminish by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents
• The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal state

Examples

• The library quenched her thirst for knowledge
• The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldnt shatter

Related words

• quenching
• thirst-quenching
• quenchless
• quencher
• unquenchable
• unquenched
• unquenchably
• quench one's thirst
• quenching water