vt.

1. 壓制（慾望等），抑制；解（渴）[（+with）]
   He quenched his thirst with a glass of water.

   他喝了一杯水解渴。

2. 熄滅；撲滅；平息
   The fire was quenched with a bucket of water.

   火被一桶水澆滅了。

3. 【俚】迫使（反對者）住口
4. 將……淬火；使冷卻
   quench steel

   淬鋼

vi.

1. 熄滅；平息下來
   The fire quenched.

   火熄滅了。

2. 冷卻

v.

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.).

n.