quench

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On Friday, a failure, known as a quench, caused around 100 of the LHC's super-cooled magnets to heat up by as much as 100C.

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  1. transitive verb To put out (a fire, for example); extinguish.
  2. transitive verb To suppress; squelch: The disapproval of my colleagues quenched my enthusiasm for the plan.
  3. transitive verb To put an end to; destroy.
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  1. Middle English quenchen, from Old English -cwencan (in ācwencan, to quench).

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  1. from Middle English quenchen (preterit quencte, queynte), from Anglo-Saxon cwencan (also, in comp., ā-cwencan), quench, put out, causal of *cwincan (preterit *cwanc), in comp. ā-cwincan (= OFries. kwinka), go out, be extinguished; cf. cwīnan (preterit *cwān), in comp. ā-cwīnan, go out, be extinguished.
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