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quencher

quencher noun: something that quenches (thirst, fire, etc.).

Noun

quencher (plural quenchers)

  1. Something that quenches (thirst, fire, etc.)
    • [I]t is a terrible long and slippery descent, and a shocking bad road. At the bottom, however, there is a pleasant public; whereat we must really take a modest quencher, for the down air is provocative of thirst.1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

quencher meaning in Tamil and Urdu

quencher in Tamil

quencher, fodder
தீனி tīṉi

quencher in Urdu

مشروب, پیاس بجھانے والی چیز

Forms of quencher

pluralquenchers

Origin of quencher

From Middle English quenchere, equivalent to quench + -er.

Words formed from quencher

Questions about quencher

What does quencher mean?
Quencher means something that quenches (thirst, fire, etc.).
What is quencher in Tamil?
Quencher in Tamil is தீனி (tīṉi). See Quencher meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quencher?
Quencher is a noun.
What is the plural of quencher?
The plural of quencher is quenchers.

Words near quencher in the dictionary

  1. quenchant
  2. quenchants
  3. quenchcoal
  4. quenchcoals
  5. quenched
  6. quencher
  7. quenchers
  8. quenches
  9. quenchest
  10. quencheth
  11. quenchier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quencher (page history and authors); தீனி (Tamil) (page history and authors); quencher (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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