■ verb
1》 satisfy (thirst) by drinking.
2》 satisfy (a desire).
3》 extinguish (a fire).
↘rapidly cool (hot metal).
4》 stifle (a feeling).
↘ dated reduce to silence.
5》 Physics & Electronics suppress or damp (luminescence, an oscillation, etc.).
■ noun an act of ~ing something very hot.
Derivatives
~able adjective
~er noun
~less adjective ( literary ).
Origin
OE -cwencan (in acwencan 'put out, extinguish'), of Gmc origin.