extinguish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
Forms: form: extinguishes
form: extinguishing
form: extinguished
form: extinguished
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.
Senses: synonyms: douse
extinct
glosses: To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
examples: text: A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison
text: The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
glosses: To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
synonyms: extinct
glosses: To kill (someone).
examples: text: She extinguished all my hopes.
text: They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers
synonyms: word: extinct
word: destroy
word: annihilate
word: aerosolize
word: atomize
word: benothing
word: bewreck
word: blot out
word: blotto
word: dash
word: decompose
word: demolish
word: desolate
word: devastate
word: diffuse
word: disintegrate
word: disperse
word: dissolve
word: eliminate
word: eradicate
word: erase
word: exterminate
word: extinguish
word: extirpate
word: fuck
word: harry
word: jazz
word: lay waste
word: level
word: liquidate
word: nuke
word: obliterate
word: pull down
word: pulverize
word: race
word: raze
word: ravage
word: remove
word: ruin
word: stamp out
word: total
word: unbreed
word: unexist
word: unmake
word: uproot
word: waste
word: wipe out
word: wipe off
word: wreck
glosses: To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
examples: text: Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: word: extinct
word: destroy
word: annihilate
word: aerosolize
word: atomize
word: benothing
word: bewreck
word: blot out
word: blotto
word: dash
word: decompose
word: demolish
word: desolate
word: devastate
word: diffuse
word: disintegrate
word: disperse
word: dissolve
word: eliminate
word: eradicate
word: erase
word: exterminate
word: extinguish
word: extirpate
word: fuck
word: harry
word: jazz
word: lay waste
word: level
word: liquidate
word: nuke
word: obliterate
word: pull down
word: pulverize
word: race
word: raze
word: ravage
word: remove
word: ruin
word: stamp out
word: total
word: unbreed
word: unexist
word: unmake
word: uproot
word: waste
word: wipe out
word: wipe off
word: wreck
glosses: To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
synonyms: extinct
glosses: To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
examples: text: 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
roman: The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
text: 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.
ref: 2024 May 11, Barney Jopson, “Catalonia separatist deal tested at ballot box”, in FT Weekend, page 2:
topics: law
synonyms: extinct
glosses: To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
glosses: To die out.
Derived terms: extinguishable
extinguishant
extinguishment
inextinguishability
self-extinguishing
Related terms: distinguish
extinct
extinction
extinguisher
fire extinguisher