Meanings
verboutquench (third-person singular simple present outquenches, present participle outquenching, simple past and past participle outquenched)
present singular third person outquenches · participle present outquenching · participle past outquenched · past outquenched
- archaictransitiveTo 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
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