Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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quench

/kwɛnt͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Forms quenches quenching quenched quent

  1. verb (transitive, originally figurative) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst. “The library quenched her thirst for knowledge.”
  2. verb (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
  3. verb (transitive, metallurgy) To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron. “The swordsmith quenched the sword in an oil bath so that it wouldn't shatter.”
  4. verb (transitive, chemistry) To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
  5. verb (transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
  6. verb (transitive, physics) To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state. “If someone is pinned against the MRI magnet by a ferromagnetic object, you may need to quench the magnet in order to free them.”
  7. noun The act of quenching something; the fact of being quenched.
  8. noun (physics) The abnormal termination of operation of a superconducting magnet, occurring when part of the superconducting coil enters the normal (resistive) state.
  9. noun (physics) A rapid change of the parameters of a physical system.

Synonyms

appease slake allay assuage snuff out blow out extinguish squelch quell

Etymology

From Middle English quenchen, from Old English cwenċan, from Proto-Germanic *kwankijaną.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; --said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc. Ere our blood shall quench that fire. Shak.
  2. verb To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
  3. verb To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool. [R.]

Etymology [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in acwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, acwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cwinan, acwinan, to waste or dwindle away.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “quench”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “quench” (best matches first).