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quench
1. verb /kwɛnʧ/
a) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.

The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.

b) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.)

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.

2. noun /kwɛnʧ/
The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.

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