outquench

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ quench.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To quench entirely; to extinguish.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:

     And makes huge hauocke, whiles the candlelight / Out quenched, leaues no skill nor difference of wight.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outquench”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)