outquench

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ quench.

Verb

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

1. (archaic, 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.

References

• “outquench”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.