Quench vs Restored - What's the difference?
quench | restored |
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.
Pertaining to something or someone renewed or rebuilt.
:A fully-restored Volkswagon beetle will cost more.
(restore)
As verbs the difference between quench and restored
is that quench is to satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst while restored is (restore).As a noun quench
is (physics) the abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.As an adjective restored is
pertaining to something or someone renewed or rebuilt.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.