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• n  the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
• v  satisfy (thirst)
• v  put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
• v  electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
• v  suppress or crush completely
• v  reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
• v  cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid

• Nippon Steel provided China's first dry-quenching facility for Shanghai-based Baosteel in the mid-1980s; since then Nippon Steel has supplied about 30 more at an estimated $20 .
• I busied myself preparing my Coke and was impressed by the expansive diameter of the straws excellent for quenching a powerful thirst like the one had I built up in a hectic .
• It was very wet, and thirt sic quenching.

• extinction
• extinguishing
• quench
• slake
• allay
• assuage
• snuff out
• blow out
• extinguish
• squelch
• quell

• ignite

News & Articles

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• Kate Hudson Gets Bubbly, Talks Love of Lip Balm for Almay [VIDEO]
  (Photo via YouTube) Out this month is Almay’s new Color + Care Liquid Lip Balms , a collection of 10 brilliant, happy-go-lucky hues that may look like glosses—everything from the wand applicator to the stay-put color makes it appear so—but once applied, provide the instant lip-quenching hydration of a balm. (Plus, non-sticky!) And who better to represent such vibrant and bubbly shades, than the ...
  June 13, 2013 - StyleBistro
• Children and Parents Will Go Nuts for New Vita Coco Kids Drinks
  During the summer months, when activities run as high as the heat, children – and their parents – are looking for thirst-quenching drinks that are as delicious as they are good for you.
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Claude Mandil in ABC Science Online
  In a 2005 report, the agency's executive director, Claude Mandil, argued that "There is no shortage of oil and gas in the ground, but quenching the world's thirst for them will call for major investment in modern technologies."
• Ayman al-Zawahri in Bloomberg
  Attacks by terrorists "have deprived you of the pleasure of quenching your thirst for revenge," Zawahiri said in reference to Bush in the videotape, which was seen by the Washington-based Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute.
• Alaa Al Aswany in San Francisco Chronicle
  They do not love it simply as a way of quenching lust,writes Al Aswany, "but because sex, and their husbands' greed for it, makes them feel that despite all the misery they suffer they are still women, beautiful and desired by their...