extinguish

ex·tin·guish

E0298200 (ĭk-stĭng′gwĭsh)tr.v. ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es 1. To cause (a fire or light) to stop burning or shining; put out.2. To put an end to or make extinct; destroy: "Her death extinguished the dream of family that was closest to his heart" (Karen Lystra). See Synonyms at annihilate.3. Psychology To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned response).

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[Latin exstinguere : ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + stinguere, to quench; see steig- in Indo-European roots.]

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ex·tin′guish·a·ble adj.ex·tin′guish·ment n.

extinguish

(ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ) vb (tr) 1. to put out or quench (a light, flames, etc)2. to remove or destroy entirely; annihilate3. archaic to eclipse or obscure by or as if by superior brilliance4. (Commerce) law to discharge (a debt)[C16: from Latin exstinguere, from stinguere to quench] exˈtinguishable adj exˈtinguisher n exˈtinguishment n

ex•tin•guish

(ɪkˈstɪŋ gwɪʃ)

v.t. 1. to cause to stop burning; put out: to extinguish a fire. 2. to put an end to or bring to an end; wipe out of existence; annihilate: to extinguish hope. 3. to obscure or eclipse, as by superior brilliance. 4. Law. to discharge (a debt), as by payment. [1535–45; < Latin ex(s)tingu(ere) (ex- ex-¹ + stinguere to quench) + -ish²] ex•tin′guish•a•ble, adj. ex•tin′guish•ment, n.

extinguish

Past participle: extinguished
Gerund: extinguishing

Imperative
extinguish
extinguish

Present
I extinguish
you extinguish
he/she/it extinguishes
we extinguish
you extinguish
they extinguish

Preterite
I extinguished
you extinguished
he/she/it extinguished
we extinguished
you extinguished
they extinguished

Present Continuous
I am extinguishing
you are extinguishing
he/she/it is extinguishing
we are extinguishing
you are extinguishing
they are extinguishing

Present Perfect
I have extinguished
you have extinguished
he/she/it has extinguished
we have extinguished
you have extinguished
they have extinguished

Past Continuous
I was extinguishing
you were extinguishing
he/she/it was extinguishing
we were extinguishing
you were extinguishing
they were extinguishing

Past Perfect
I had extinguished
you had extinguished
he/she/it had extinguished
we had extinguished
you had extinguished
they had extinguished

Future
I will extinguish
you will extinguish
he/she/it will extinguish
we will extinguish
you will extinguish
they will extinguish

Future Perfect
I will have extinguished
you will have extinguished
he/she/it will have extinguished
we will have extinguished
you will have extinguished
they will have extinguished

Future Continuous
I will be extinguishing
you will be extinguishing
he/she/it will be extinguishing
we will be extinguishing
you will be extinguishing
they will be extinguishing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been extinguishing
you have been extinguishing
he/she/it has been extinguishing
we have been extinguishing
you have been extinguishing
they have been extinguishing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been extinguishing
you will have been extinguishing
he/she/it will have been extinguishing
we will have been extinguishing
you will have been extinguishing
they will have been extinguishing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been extinguishing
you had been extinguishing
he/she/it had been extinguishing
we had been extinguishing
you had been extinguishing
they had been extinguishing

Conditional
I would extinguish
you would extinguish
he/she/it would extinguish
we would extinguish
you would extinguish
they would extinguish

Past Conditional
I would have extinguished
you would have extinguished
he/she/it would have extinguished
we would have extinguished
you would have extinguished
they would have extinguished

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	extinguish - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"snuff outdo away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion; "smother fires"
	2.	extinguish - 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"blow out, quench, snuff outstub - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigarette now"douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"black out - obliterate or extinguish; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived"ignite, light - cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
	3.	extinguish - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"crush out, press out, stub outterminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
	4.	extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"do away with, eliminate, get rid ofcancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a traceknock out - eliminate; "knock out a target"drown - get rid of as if by submerging; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol"cut out - delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article"prune, rationalize, rationalise, cut - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"extinguish, snuff out - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"exclude, leave out, omit, leave off, except, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece"destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house"
	5.	extinguish - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"annihilate, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, eliminate, carry offdecimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armieskill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays"

extinguish

verb1. put out, stifle, smother, blow out, douse, snuff out, quench It took about 50 minutes to extinguish the fire.2. destroy, end, kill, remove, eliminate, obscure, abolish, suppress, wipe out, erase, eradicate, annihilate, put paid to, exterminate, expunge, extirpate The message extinguished her hopes of Richard's return.

extinguish

verb1. To cause to stop burning or giving light:douse, put out, quench, snuff out.2. To destroy all traces of:abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.Idioms: do away with, make an end of, put an end to.3. To bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight:choke off, crush, put down, quash, quell, quench, squash, squelch, suppress.Idiom: put the lid on.4. Law. To put an end to, especially formally and with authority:abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void.

Translations

熄灭

extinguish

(ikˈstiŋgwiʃ) verb to put out (a fire etc). Please extinguish your cigarettes. 熄滅 熄灭exˈtinguisher noun a spraying apparatus containing chemicals for putting out fire. 滅火器 灭火器