quench

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To satisfy, especially an actual or figurative thirst.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light.).
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To cool rapidly by dipping into a bath of coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
  4. Noun.  (physics) 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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