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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (5)

1. put an end to; kill;
- Example: "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
[syn: snuff out, extinguish]

2. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights;
- Example: "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"
- Example: "quench the flames"
- Example: "snuff out the candles"
[syn: snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench]

3. extinguish by crushing;
- Example: "stub out your cigar"
[syn: stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out]

4. terminate, end, or take out;
- Example: "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
- Example: "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
- Example: "eliminate my debts"
[syn: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with]

5. kill in large numbers;
- Example: "the plague wiped out an entire population"
[syn: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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
      .
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]