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Quenches
- verb - cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
- electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
- reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
- suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
Queriers
- noun - someone who asks a question
Questers
- noun - someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth"
Quetches
- verb - express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
Quetzals
- noun - large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage
- the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos
Quibbles
- noun - an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
- evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
Quickens
- verb - give life or energy to;
- give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
- make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite"
- move faster; "The car accelerated"
- show signs of life; "the fetus quickened"
Quiesces
- verb - become quiet or quieter;
Quietens
- verb - become quiet or quieter;
- cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!"
- make calm or still;
- reduce sound