Search Result:extinguish
KK Pronunciation
〔 IkˋstIŋgwIʃ 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ikˊstiŋɡwiʃ 〕
Overview of verb extinguish
The verb extinguish has 5 senses
- snuff out, extinguish -- (put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children")
- snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench -- (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")
- stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out -- (extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar")
- extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")
- eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off -- (kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population")