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Definition: Extinguish |
ExtinguishVerb1. Put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children". 2. 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". 3. Extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar". 4. Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "extinguish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Extinguished; pr. vb. noun Extinguishing.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ExtinguishSynonyms: annihilate (v), carry off (v), crush out (v), decimate (v), eliminate (v), eradicate (v), press out (v), quench (v), snuff out (v), stub out (v), wipe out (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ignite (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate. |
Insulation, Fire extinction | Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out. |
Refrigeration | Damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility) a. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Extinguish |
| English words defined with "extinguish": behavior modification, behavior therapy, black out ♦ candlesnuffer, crush out ♦ fire engine, fire fighter, fire-eater, firefighter, fireman ♦ inextinguishable ♦ kill ♦ Outquench ♦ press out ♦ Restinguish ♦ stamp, stamp out, stub out ♦ To put out, To snuff out, To stamp out ♦ Whole snipe. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "extinguish": Fire Extinguishing Systems, fire fighter, airport, FIRE FIGHTER, CRASH, FIRE, AND RESCUE ♦ Gas ♦ heat treater ♦ Leucadia ♦ Saturnian Days ♦ theatre dimmer, TROUBLE SHOOTER II ♦ unsealing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "extinguish": Prestige. (references) |
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Screenplays | Ladies and gentlemen, please return your seats and tray-tables to their full upright positions, and extinguish all smoking material, as we're about to land in the red zone (SpaceCamp; writing credit: Patrick Bailey; Larry B. Williams) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Firefighetrs extinguish a spot fire. Credit: USDA. |
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 | Fire; extinguisher; extinguish; put out; fireman; firefighter; douse; dout; drown; out; quench; smother; snuff out; stamp out; stifle; suffocate. |
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Francis Bacon | Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is a point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and which nothing can extinguish. |
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Business | Synthetic and flourochemical-based, the environment-friendly foam concentrate meets high international standards and can be used with fresh water, seawater or brackish water to control and extinguish hydrocarbon fuel fires. (references) | |
Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | When he tried to extinguish the flames, unknown assailants fired shots at him. (references) |
Nigeria | For example, in October when two small churches caught fire in Kaduna city, Christian and Muslim neighbors helped extinguish the fires, and the state government promised funds to repair them. (references) | |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | Torrents of blood have been split in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in Religious opinion. |
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| "Extinguish" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 84.85% of the time. "Extinguish" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 84.85% | 84 | 36,109 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.1% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.05% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "extinguish": extinguish the fire ♦ fire extinguish. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
extinguish fire | 5 |
extinguish | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "extinguish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | doodmaak (put out), blus (put out). (various references) | |
Albanian | shuaj (beat out, blanket, blow out, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), fik (fig), asgjësoj (annihilate, decimate, destroy, devour, disannul, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, fast, finish, finish off, frustrate, liquidate, overturn, rub out, scathe, shake down, slate, smite, stultify, trample down, unbuild, undo, unmake, uproot). (various references) | |
Arabic | محا (blot out, deface, efface, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, obliterate, rub out, scratch out, sponge out, wipe off, wipe out), مسح (clean, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, rub, scanning, scrub, sponge, survey, swab, sweep, wipe, wiping), وضع حدا (break, put a stop to, ring, snuff out, split up, stop, suppress, terminate), حطم (break, break up, crack, dash, disintegrate, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak, wreck), سدد دين (acquit, liquidate, return, settle, sink, solve), أطفأ (blow out, douse, go out, put out, quench, snuff out, stamp out, switch off, turn off), أخمد نار, أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, defeat, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | угасявам (douse, put out, snuff out), унищожавам (annihilate, consume, crush, demolish, destroy, devour, eat up, exterminate, kill, make away with, neutralize, nullify, pulverize, rip out, ruin, scathe, scotch, smash, smash up, squelch, stamp, tread down, undo, unmake, wipe out, wipe up), гася (blow out, quench, slack, slake, stifle), отменям (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, cancel, countermand, disaffirm, override, quash, raise, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, reverse, revoke, scrub, supersede, undo, wash out, withdraw), превъзхождам (beat, cap, domineer, exceed, outbalance, outclass, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outrival, outstrip, out-top, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overmatch, overpass, overtop, surpass, transcend), потушавам (clamp, mortify, overbear, put down, put out, quash, quell, quench, repress, smother, snuff out, squash, strangle, subdue, suppress, tread down), погасявам (amortise, amortize, clear off, pay off, quit, redeem, sink), изтребвам (annihilate, destroy, exterminate, extirpate). (various references) | |
Chinese | 熄灭 (Extinguished, Extinguishing, Quench, Quenched, Quenching), 熄滅 , 熸 , 滅絕 (become extinct), 滅 . (various references) | |
Czech | zhasit (blow out, douse, put out), uhasit (assuage, douse, put down, quench, sate, satiate, satisfy, slake). (various references) | |
Danish | udslukke (put out). (various references) | |
Dutch | blussen (put out), uitdoen (put off, put out, take off, turn off), uitblussen (put out), doven (put out). (various references) | |
Esperanto | estingi (put out). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sløkkja (put out). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرونشاندن (Appease, Calm, Curb, Infix, Lull, Pacify, Quash, Quell, Quench, Relieve, Remit, Repress, Sate, Slack, Soften, Stanch, Stifle, Suppress, Tranquilize), منقرض کردن (Exterminate, Overthrow), کشتن (Administer, Amortize, Butcher, Dispatch, Doin, Mortify, Murder, Out, Rat, Smite), خفه کردن (Asphyxiate, Choke, Mute, Scrag, Shutup, Smolder, Smother, Squash, Stifle, Strangle, Strangulate, Suffocate, Throttle), خاموش کردن (Hush, Out, Quench, Smolder, Smother, Stanch, Stifle, Suffocate). (various references) | |
Finnish | sammuttaa (put out). (various references) | |
French | éteindre. (various references) | |
Frisian | dwêste (put out), dôvje (put out). (various references) | |
German | auslöschen (annihilate, efface, obliterate). (various references) | |
Greek | σβήνω (blow out, delete, die out, go out, quench). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כיבה (turn off). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elolt (to slake, to smother, to turn off), elfojt (to damp, to stifle), megszüntet (to abolish). (various references) | |
Indonesian | memadamkan (put down, quell). (various references) | |
Italian | spengere (put out), spegnere (put off, put out, switch off), estinguere (extinction). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 消し止める (to extinguish, to put out). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けしとめる (to extinguish, to put out). (various references) | |
Korean | 진화하십시요 (Evolve). (various references) | |
Manx | mooghey (blank off, blot out, blow out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off), cur jerrey er (conclude, cry off, discontinue, eliminate, eradicate, finish, resolve, sweep away). (various references) | |
Maya | tup (to extinguish). (various references) | |
Norwegian | utrydde (eradicate, exterminate), slokke. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extinguishay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | extinguir (put out), apagar (abrade, dele, delete, douse, efface, erase, obliterate, out, put out, quench, rub out, scrape off, turn off, turn out, wipe off, zap). (various references) | |
Romanian | eclipsa (blind, disappear, eclipse, efface, obfuscate, outshine, overshadow, surpass, vanish), stinge (allay, annihilate, annul, appease, baste, choke, die, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, hush, quench, quit, silence, slack, slake, smother, wither), reduce la tãcere (floor, put down, put to silence, reduce to silence, silence, squelch, strangle, talk down), nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, cut, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither), face sã disparã (drown), amortiza (absorb, amortize, break, cushion, damp, deaden, liquidate, pay off, redeem). (various references) | |
Russian | уничтожать (annihilate, destroy), гасить (quench), погасить (extinguishing), погашать долг (amortise, amortize, liquidate). (various references) | |
Scottish | mùch (smother, squeeze together, suffocate). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ugasiti (douse, put out, quench, slake, snuff, switch off, turn off, turn out), gasiti (quench). (various references) | |
Spanish | apagar (put out), extinguir (delete, die off, erase, exterminate, extinction, liquidate, obliterate, put down, put out, redeemed, switch off, wipe out). (various references) | |
Swedish | släcka (put out, quench). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้ไฟดับ, ทำลาย (annihilate, assassinate, blight, break, eat, kick in, murder). (various references) | |
Turkish | yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), yıkmak (batter down, blast, blow down, break down, confound, dash, demolish, destroy, do for, drag down, explode, housebreak, knock down, knock over, level, overthrow, pull dawn, puncture, ravage, ruin, shatter, shoot down, split, subvert, take down, unbuild), tüketmek (consume, deplete, destroy, dispose of, drain, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, spend, swallow up, use up, waste, wear away, wear out, whittle away, whittle off, work out), söndürmek (attenuate, damp, damp down, dampen, deflate, douse, dowse, hydrate, kill, put out, quench, slack, slacken, slake, snuff out, suffocate, switch off, trample out, turn off, turn out), ortadan kaldırmak (abolish, annihilate, blot out, charm away, clear away, clear off, do away with, hide from view, iron out, kill, make away with, put away, put out of sight, raze, remove, suppress, sweep, sweep away, take away), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, flow, gulp, gulp down, hold down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), baskın çıkmak (euchre, preponderate, preponderate over, surpass, talk down, trump), ödeyerek bitirmek. (various references) | |
Turkmen | sцndьrmek (turn off a light), ьzmek (pluck, tear off), цзmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гасити (choke, dowse, null, out, quench, turn out), знищувати (abolish, annihilate, annul, blast, consume, crush, delete, demolish, efface, exterminate, kill, kill off, neutralize, nullify, obliterate, outroot, overthrow, overturn, pull up, quell, root out, root up, rub out, scotch, sweep away, take off, torpedo, wear off, wither). (various references) | |
Welsh | diffodd (quench, turn out). (various references) | |
Yucatec | tuupik (put out). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | extincta, extinctae, extincti, extinctum, extinctus, extinguas, extinguat, extinguentis, extinguere, extingueretur, extinguet, extinguetur, extinguit, extinguuntur, extinxerunt, interemerunt, interemistis, interim, interimerent. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Epi pasin analabonteV ton qureon thV pistewV en w dunhsesqe panta ta belh tou ponhrou ta pepurwmena sbesai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In omnibus sumentes scutum fidei in quo possitis omnia tela nequissimi ignea extinguere |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In alle thingis take ye the scheld of feith, in which ye moun quenche alle the firy dartis of `the worste. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Above all take to you the shelde of fayth wherwith ye maye quenche all ye fyrie dartes of the wicked. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which ye will be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the wicked. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. |
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| Language | Ephesians Chapter 6, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | ug dugang sa tanan, dad-a ninyo ang kalasag nga mao ang pagtoo, nga pinaagi niini arang kamo makapalong sa tanang mga nagadilaab nga udyong sa dautan. |
| Chinese | 此 外 又 拿 著 信 德 當 作 籐 牌 、 可 以 滅 盡 那 惡 者 一 切 的 火 箭 ． |
| Croatian | U svemu imajte uza se štit vjere: njime æete moæi ugasiti ognjene strijele Zloga. |
| Danish | og i alle Forhold løfter Troens Skjold, med hvilket I ville kunne slukke alle den ondes gloende Pile, |
| Dutch | Bovenal aangenomen hebbende het schild des geloofs, met hetwelk gij al de vurige pijlen des bozen zult kunnen uitblussen. |
| Finnish | Kaikessa ottakaa uskon kilpi, jolla voitte sammuttaa kaikki pahan palavat nuolet, |
| French | prenez par-dessus tout cela le bouclier de la foi, avec lequel vous pourrez éteindre tous les traits enflammés du malin; |
| German | Vor allen Dingen aber ergreifet den Schild des Glaubens, mit welchem ihr auslöschen könnt alle feurigen Pfeile des Bösewichtes; |
| Haitian Creole | Toujou pran konfyans nou gen nan Bondye a tankou yon defans ki va penmèt nou pare tout flèch Satan an ap voye tou limen sou nou. |
| Hungarian | Mindezekhez fölvevén a hitnek paizsát, a melylyel ama gonosznak minden tüzes nyilát megolthatjátok; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Setiap waktu pakailah percayamu kepada Tuhan sebagai senjata penangkis; dengan iman itu kalian dapat memadamkan semua anak panah berapi dari si jahat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan senantiasa memegang perisai, yaitu iman, maka dengan dia itu dapat kamu memadamkan segala anak panah berapi daripada si Jahat itu. |
| Italian | Tenete sempre in mano lo scudo della fede, con il quale potrete spegnere tutti i dardi infuocati del maligno; |
| Latvian | Pie visa tâ tveriet ticîbas vairogu, ar kuru jûs spçsiet apdzçst visas ïaunâ ugunîgâs bultas! |
| Maori | Mo waho i enei mea katoa e mau ki te whakapono hei whakangungu rakau, e taea ai e koutou te tinei nga matia muramura katoa a te wairua kino. |
| Norwegian | og grip foruten alt dette troens skjold, hvormed I skal kunne slukke alle den ondes brennende piler, |
| Portuguese | tomando, sobretudo, o escudo da fé, com o qual podereis apagar todos os dardos inflamados do Maligno. |
| Rumanian | Pe deasupra tuturor acestora, luayi scutul credinyei, cu care veyi putea stinge toate sqgeyile arzqtoare ale celui rqu. |
| Russian | Б РБЮЕ ЧУЕЗП ЧПЪШНЙФЕ ЭЙФ ЧЕТЩ, ЛПФПТЩН ЧПЪНПЦЕФЕ ХЗБУЙФШ ЧУЕ ТБУЛБМЕООЩЕ УФТЕМЩ МХЛБЧПЗП; |
| Shuar | Nuyasha Ashí nankaamas, tantar takustinia aintsan, Yus tuke nekas Enentáimtustarum. Nujai íwianch Eketrámkamusha uwemturtatme. |
| Spanish | Y sobre todo, armaos con el escudo de la fe con que podréis apagar todos los dardos de fuego del maligno. |
| Swahili | Zaidi ya hayo yote, imani iwe daima kama ngao mikononi mwenu, iwawezeshe kuizima mishale ya moto ya yule Mwovu. |
| Swedish | Och tagen alltid trons sköld, varmed I skolen kunna utsläcka den ondes alla brinnande pilar. |
| Uma | Pai' hi butu nyala-na kana moroho pepangala' -ta hi Alata'ala-wadi. Pepangala' -ta toe taponcawa kaliawo to tatamaeo ncuu. Hante pepangala' -ta toe, ma'ala tajungki' hawe'ea rewa mpanga'e to memoho' to natoa' -taka anudaa'. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "extinguish": extinguishable, extinguished, extinguisher, extinguishers, extinguishes, extinguishing, extinguishment, extinguishments. (additional references) | |
Words containing "extinguish": inextinguishable, inextinguishably. (additional references) | |
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"Extinguish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extenguish, extinquish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extinguish" (pronounced iksti"nggwish) |
| 5 | -ng g w i sh | anguish, languish. |
| 3 | -w i sh | relinquish, vanquish. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-n-s-t-u-x" | |
-2 letters: existing, heisting, nighties. | |
-3 letters: exiting, gunites, histing, ignites, insight, nighest, nightie, shuting, suiting, tushing, unities, unsight. | |
-4 letters: eights, genius, gunite, hexing, hieing, hinges, hugest, ignite, ingest, neighs, nights, nixies, seniti, sexing, signet, siting, tenuis, thegns, theins, things, tieing, tinges, tushie, unisex, unites, unties. | |
-5 letters: eight, etuis, exist, exits, genii, gents, genus, guest, guise, heist. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-i-n-s-t-u-x" | |
+2 letters: extinguished, extinguisher, extinguishes. | |
+3 letters: extinguishers, extinguishing. | |
+4 letters: extinguishable, extinguishment. | |
+5 letters: extinguishments. | |
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