extinguish

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ === Verb === extinguish (third-person singular simple present extinguishes, present participle extinguishing, simple past and past participle extinguished) (transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench. Synonyms: douse, (obsolete) extinct, smother (figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something). (figurative) To kill (someone). Synonym: (obsolete) extinct (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy. Synonyms: (obsolete) extinct; see also Thesaurus:destroy (psychology) To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex). (figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench. Synonym: (obsolete) extinct (figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.). Synonym: (obsolete) extinct 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575: (intransitive, reflexive) To die out. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== distinguish extinct extinction extinguisher fire extinguisher ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “extinguish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “extinguish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.