extinguish
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[edit] Etymology
< Latin extinguere, pp. extinctus (“‘to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destory, abolish’”) < ex (“‘out’”) + stinguere (“‘to put out, quench, extinguish’”).
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to extinguish (third-person singular simple present extinguishes, present participle extinguishing, simple past and past participle extinguished)
- (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
- (transitive) to destroy or abolish something
- She extinguished all my hopes.
- (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
- (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
- (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
[edit] Synonyms
- put out, quench
- See also Wikisaurus:destroy
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to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
to destroy or abolish something
(psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
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(literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
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[edit] External links
- extinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- extinguish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
