extinguish

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• February 12. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  extinguish — verb — english

  put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  extinguish — verb — english

  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"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  extinguish — verb — english

  extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  extinguish — verb — english

  terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

• March 22. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  extinguish — verb — english

  kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"