outquench

verb

outquench

verb

Etymology From out- + quench.

1

Archaic 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:

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