To quench, extinguish, put out (fire, light, life).

transitive. To extinguish, quench; to put an end to, suppress, quell; to overwhelm, destroy, kill.

transitive. To put out, extinguish, douse (a fire or flame) (literal and figurative). Occasionally with †out.

Extinguished (see senses of extinct, n., extinguish, v.). Now rare.

transitive. To extinguish, blot out, abolish. to out pipes (Nautical): to cease smoking pipes.

To deprive of its active or effective physical quality; to deaden, make ‘dead’, extinguish.

To choke up, impede the flow of (running water); to obstruct the passage of, absorb, quench (rays of light). Obsolete.

transferred. To extinguish or obscure (a light); also, to extinguish (a cigarette). colloquial.