'Extinguish' definitions:

Definition of 'extinguish'

From: WordNet
verb
Put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" [syn: snuff out, extinguish]
verb
Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" [syn: snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench] [ant: ignite, light]
verb
Extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" [syn: stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out]
verb
Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" [syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with]
verb
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population" [syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]

Definition of 'Extinguish'

From: GCIDE
  • Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\ ([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extinguished([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sht); p pr. & vb. n. Extinguishing.] [L. extinguere, exstinguere; ex out + stinguere to quench. See Distinguish, Finish.]
  • 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 right. [1913 Webster]
  • A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
  • This extinguishes my right to the reversion. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. [1913 Webster]
  • Natural graces that extinguish art. --Shak . [1913 Webster]