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Squish vs Quench - What's the difference?

squish | quench |

As nouns the difference between squish and quench

is that squish is the sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed while 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 verbs the difference between squish and quench

is that squish is to squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist) while quench is to satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.

squish

English

Noun

(es)
  • The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
  • (politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate (term used by conservative activists in the 1980s).
  • (rfv-sense) (informal) An aromantic or platonic attraction (by analogy with crush ).
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    • , title = A Transgendered Revolution! , author = Jennifer Usher , date = 1999 November 21 , newsgroup = soc.support.transgendered , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.support.transgendered/QCupiXaOXVI/OfWtcoP2snoJ , accessdate = 2015-01-03 }}
    WHY do you think I find it so disturbing? Diane having a squish on me.
  • * 2013 , Anonymous, " The 'A' in LGBT", Counterpoint (Wellesley College), Volume 35, Issue 1, September 2013, page 8:
    • After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).

    Verb

    (es)
  • To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).
    • The sandwich tasted fine, even though it got squished in his lunchbox.

    Derived terms

    * squishy English onomatopoeias

    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.