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Extinguish

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transitive verb. To cause (a fire or light) to stop burning or shining; put out.

transitive verb. To put an end to or make extinct; destroy: synonym: annihilate.

transitive verb. To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned response).

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To put out; quench; stifle: as, to extinguish fire or flame.

To destroy; put an end to; suppress: as, to extinguish an army; to extinguish desire or hope; to extinguish a claim or title.

To put under a cloud; obscure: eclipse; make unnoticed or unnoticeable: as, he was completely extinguished in this brilliant company.

In law, to put an end to. See extinguishment, 2.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

transitive verb. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy.

transitive verb. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

verb. to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

verb. to destroy or abolish something

verb. to obscure or eclipse something

verb. to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex

verb. to hunt down (a species) to extinction

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

verb. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

verb. put an end to; kill

verb. terminate, end, or take out

verb. kill in large numbers

verb. extinguish by crushing

Word Usage

"Does not a little word extinguish all pleasures of that sort?"

Antonyms

Words with the opposite meaning

breed create foster kindle preserver

cross-reference

snuff

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

end kill terminate

Hyponym

Words that are more specific

blackout douse put out stub

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

distinguish

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

KO abate abolish abscind adumbrate

verb-form

extinguished extinguishes extinguishing