extinguish
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～ kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
extinguish
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～ extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"
extinguish
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～ 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"
extinguish
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～ put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
extinguish
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～ terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
extirpate
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～ pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
extirpate
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～ destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption"
extirpate
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～ surgically remove (an organ)
extol
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～ praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
extort
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～ get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
extort
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～ obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
extort
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～ obtain through intimidation
extract
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～ deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
extract
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～ calculate the root of a number
extract
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～ get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
extract
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～ extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
extract
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～ separate (a metal) from an ore
extract
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～ obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
extract
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～ take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
extract
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～ remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"