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ex·tin·guish  (k-stnggwsh)

tr.v. ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es

1. To put out (a fire, for example); quench.

2. To put an end to (hopes, for example); destroy. See Synonyms at abolish.

3. To obscure; eclipse.

4. Law

a. To settle or discharge (a debt).

b. To nullify: extinguished their title to the property.

5. Psychology To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned response).

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[Latin exstinguere : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + stinguere, to quench; see steig- in Indo-European roots.]

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ex·tinguish·a·ble adj.

ex·tinguish·ment n.

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extinguish

Verb

1. to put out (a fire or light)

2. to remove or destroy entirely [Latin exstinguere]

extinguishable adj
extinguisher n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	extinguish - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" snuff out do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
	2.	extinguish - put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" blow out, quench, snuff out stub - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now" douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights" black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" ignite, light - cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
	3.	extinguish - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" crush out, press out, stub out terminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
	4.	extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" do away with, eliminate, get rid of cancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a trace knock out - eliminate; "knock out a target" drown - get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" cut out - delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article" prune, rationalize, rationalise, cut - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" extinguish, snuff out - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" exclude, leave out, omit, leave off, except, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
	5.	extinguish - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" annihilate, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, eliminate, carry off decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

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extinguish

verb 1. put out, stifle, smother, blow out, douse, snuff out, quench

verb 2. destroy, end, kill, remove, eliminate, obscure, abolish, suppress, wipe out, erase, eradicate, annihilate, put paid to, exterminate, expunge, extirpate

Translations

extinguish [ɪkˈstɪŋgwɪʃ] vt → extinguir, apagar

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extinguish [ɪkˈstɪŋgwɪʃ] vt → éteindre

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extinguish [ɪksˈtɪŋgwɪʃ] vt → löschen;

(hope) → zerstören

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extinguish [ɪkˈstɪŋgwɪʃ] vt → estinguere