English Explanatory Dictionary

extinguish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
To kill (someone).
To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
To die out.

Pronunciation

/ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ en-us-extinguish.ogg

Word forms

extinguish extinguishes extinguishing 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.

Synonyms

douse extinct smother destroy annihilate aerosolize atomize benothing bewreck blot out blotto dash decompose demolish desolate devastate diffuse disintegrate disperse dissolve eliminate eradicate erase exterminate extinguish extirpate fordo fuck harry jazz lay waste level liquidate nuke obliterate overthrow overturn pull down pulverize race raze ravage ravel remove ruin ruinate stamp out total subvert unbreed unexist unmake uproot waste wipe out wipe off wreck

Related words

distinguish extinct extinction extinguisher fire extinguisher

Derived words

extinguishable extinguishant extinguishment inextinguishability self-extinguishing

Translations

Albanian: shthur Bulgarian: унищожавам Danish: slukke Danish: udslukke Dutch: vernietigen Finnish: tuhota German: auslöschen Japanese: 打っ潰す Japanese: 絶やす Central Kurdish: ئیبادەت Latin: perimō Ligurian: amortâ Māori: whakanoa Polish: stłumić Russian: разрушить Russian: уничтожить Swedish: släcka Swedish: utsläcka Uyghur: يوقاتماق Uyghur: يوقالماق Uzbek: yoʻq qilmoq

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