Quench vs Quash - What's the difference?
quench | quash |
To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
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.
(physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
To defeat forcibly.
* Barrow
* '>citation
To crush or dash to pieces.
* Waller
(legal) To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
As verbs the difference between quench and quash
is that quench is to satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst while quash is to defeat forcibly.As a noun quench
is the abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.quench
English
Verb
(es)- The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
- I began also to feel very hungry, as not having eaten for twenty-four hours; and worse than that, there was a parching thirst and dryness in my throat, and nothing with which to quench it.
- Then the MacManus went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it. -- Saul Bellow
- The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.
Noun
(es)quash
English
Verb
(es)- The army quashed the rebellion.
- Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
- The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed , / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.