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Douse vs Quenched - What's the difference?

douse | quenched |

As verbs the difference between douse and quenched

is that douse is (ambitransitive) to plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse or douse can be to strike while quenched is (quench).

As a noun douse

is a blow; stroke.

douse

English

Etymology 1

Probably of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) and (douse) below.

Alternative forms

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Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
  • To fall suddenly into water.
    • (Hudibras)
  • To put out; to extinguish.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) duschen, .

    Verb

    (dous)
  • To strike.
  • (nautical) To strike or lower in haste; to slacken suddenly; as, douse the topsail.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow; stroke.

    • Anagrams

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    quenched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (quench)
    • I quenched my thirst with soup.

    quench

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
    • The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • 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.
  • To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.)
    • Then the MacManus went down. The sudden quench of the white light was how I knew it. -- Saul Bellow
  • To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
    • The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.