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What is the difference between 'douse', 'smother', 'quench'?
31 mag 2020 09:05
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"Quench" really means to use liquid on something until it has gone. So you quench your thirst by drinking; you quench a fire by pouring water on it. (You could smother a fire with something solid such as a blanket.)
31 maggio 2020
Quenching can also be a technical term in metal working. It is used to alter a metal's properties, typically hardening.
31 maggio 2020
To douse means to cover something with a lot of liquid.
To smother- it kind of depends on the context but literally it means to cover a person's airways so as to stop them being able to breath. In the context of food, smoother could be used to describe for example a pizza 'smothered in cheese' i.e there is a lot of cheese on the pizza
To quench is to drink liquid so that you stop being thirsty.
hope this helps?
31 maggio 2020
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