extinguish

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21
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23
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10
Pronunciation
/ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/

Definition of extinguish

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
  2. (figuratively, transitive)To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
    “A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison”
    “The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.”
  3. (figuratively, transitive)To kill (someone).
  4. (figuratively, transitive)To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
    “She extinguished all my hopes.”
    “They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers”
  5. (figuratively, transitive)To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
    “Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.”
  6. (figuratively, transitive)To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
  7. (figuratively, transitive)To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
    “1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575”
    “If the amnesty becomes law as expected this month or in June, it promises to extinguish the charges Puigdemont faces of disobedience and misuse of public funds.”
  8. (intransitive, reflexive)To die out.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct.

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