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Meaning of 'extinguish' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Extinguish [ v. t.]
- To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
- To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Meaning of 'extinguish' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . extinguish [ v]
Meaning (1):
- terminate, end, or take out
Example in sentence:
  • eliminate my debts;
  • Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics;
  • Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
Meaning (2):
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Example in sentence:
  • quench the flames;
  • snuff out the candles;
  • Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
Meaning (3):
- extinguish by crushing
Example in sentence:
  • stub out your cigar;
  • stub out your cigarette now
Meaning (4):
- put an end to; kill
Example in sentence:
  • The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children
Meaning (5):
- kill in large numbers
Example in sentence:
  • the plague wiped out an entire population

Nearby Words:

extacy extance extancy extant extasy extatic extemporal extemporanean extemporaneous extemporarily

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