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Webster 1913 Edition
Extinguish
Ex-tin′guish
(ĕks-tĭṉ′gwĭsh)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Extinguished
(ĕks-tĭṉ′gwĭsht)
; p pr. & vb. n.
Extinguishing
.] 1.
To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy;
as, to
. extinguish
a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a rightA light which the fierce winds have no power to
extinguish
. Prescott.
This
extinguishes
my right to the reversion. Blackstone.
2.
To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
Natural graces that
.extinguish
art. Shak
Webster 1828 Edition
Extinguish
EXTIN'GUISH
,Verb.
T.
1.
To put out; to quench; to suffocate; to destroy; as, to extinguish fire or flame.2.
To destroy; to put an end to; as, to extinguish love or hatred in the breast; to extinguish desire or hope; to extinguish a claim or title.3.
To cloud or obscure by superior splendor.4.
To put an end to, by union or consolidation. [See Extinguishment.]Definition 2024
extinguish
extinguish
English
Verb
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.
- 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
- 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.
- (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
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
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to destroy or abolish something
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to obscure or eclipse 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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External links
- extinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- extinguish in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911