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outquenching

outquenching is the present participle and gerund of outquench.

Meaning of outquench

Verb

outquench (third-person singular simple present outquenches, present participle outquenching, simple past and past participle outquenched)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To quench entirely; to extinguish.
    • And makes huge hauocke, whiles the candlelight / Out quenched, leaues no skill nor difference of wight.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16

Questions about outquenching

What is outquenching the present participle and gerund of?
Outquenching is the present participle and gerund of outquench.

Words near outquenching in the dictionary

  1. outqueening
  2. outqueens
  3. outquench
  4. outquenched
  5. outquenches
  6. outquenching
  7. outquestion
  8. outquestioned
  9. outquestioning
  10. outquestions
  11. outquibble

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