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Meaning of extinguish
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extinguish
v 1: put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of
many Jewish children" [syn: {snuff out}, {extinguish}]
2: 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}]
3: extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" [syn: {stub
out}, {crush out}, {extinguish}, {press out}]
4: 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}]
5: kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire
population" [syn: {eliminate}, {annihilate}, {extinguish},
{eradicate}, {wipe out}, {decimate}, {carry off}]
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