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Definition: Extinguished |
ExtinguishedAdjective1. (psychology) of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement. 2. Of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "faint smoke from the extinguished candle"; "the fire is out"; "the quenched flames". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "extinguished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ExtinguishedSynonyms: extinct (adj), out(p) (adj), quenched (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Extinguished |
| English words defined with "extinguished": Depolarization of light, desensitization procedure, desensitization technique ♦ extinct, extinction, extinguish, extinguishable, Extinguishment ♦ fire brigade ♦ go out ♦ Inextinguishably ♦ occult, out ♦ quench, quenched ♦ Sensitive flame, systematic desinsitization. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "extinguished": Agnes ♦ Bell, Book, and Candle ♦ capacitive control, compressed-air-driven lamps ♦ interrupted pilot ♦ Jabesh-Gilead ♦ King ♦ Lamps ♦ SNAP DRAGON ♦ transient pilot, type G pilot ♦ uncontrolled fire ♦ winter buoy ♦ Zenith. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "extinguished": Extinguish. (references) |
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Screenplays | I don't want him back, I just want him vaporized, extinguished! When I'm done with him, he'll be just a twitching little stain on the floor (Addicted to Love; writing credit: Robert Gordon) | |
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 | Ship's after 5"/38 twin gun mount burning, as her crew tried to control fires on 19 March 1945. The carrier had been hit by a Japanese air attack while operating off the coast of Japan. Photographed from USS Santa Fe (CL-60), which extinguished the fire in this gun mount by playing streams of water through the mount's open door. Later, the other 5"/38 twin gun mount and the 40mm quad machine gun mount (at right) also burned. Note ammunition loaded in the feed racks of the 40mm guns. Credit: NAVY. |  | Marines in combat. Fire in this fighter plane was quickly extinguished by Marines at the Guadalcanal airport after a Japanese bomb hit the hangar shown in the background. The plane was not seriously damaged. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Burke | Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. |
Francis Bacon | Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished. |
Horace | Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. |
Karl Menninger | The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The present stipulation will bar completely and finally all claims of this nature, which will be thenceforward extinguished, whoever may be the parties in interest. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | Thus the fire is extinguished. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Nothing was stirring, not a bivouac fire was extinguished. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The candles on the high altar had been extinguished but the fragrance of incense still floated down the dim nave |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | After having taken medicine, and fasted for three days, all the fire in the town is extinguished. |
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Economic History | Kuwait | All of these fires were extinguished within a year. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester: "If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester." "The reason, Sire, that you would thrive," The fool said -- "if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit." Oogum Bem KING'S :EVIL:, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from scrofa, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms." |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | The country to which their title had been extinguished before the Revolution is sufficient to receive a very respectable population, which Congress will probably see the expediency of encouraging so soon as the limits shall be declared. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | His threats and his barbarities, instead of dismay, will kindle in every bosom an indignation not be extinguished but in the disaster and expulsion of such cruel invaders. |
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| "Extinguished" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 75.46% of the time. "Extinguished" is used about 163 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 (past participle) | 75.46% | 123 | 28,925 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.63% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.91% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
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Expressions using "extinguished": be extinguished ♦ extinguished mode. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "extinguished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i fikur (dead, exanimate, exhausted, switched off, undone). (various references) | |
Arabic | مطفأ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | погасен (put out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 熄灭 (Extinguish, Extinguishing, Quench, Quenched, Quenching), 汩 (confused). (various references) | |
Danish | uden ophedning (extinguished mode), punkt,hvor flammen slukkes (point where the flame is extinguished), glødefri (extinguished mode), betingelser for ophaevelse af toldskyld (conditions under which a debt is extinguished). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorwaarden waaronder een schuld teniet gaat (conditions under which a debt is extinguished), punt waar vlam dooft (point where the flame is extinguished), gedelgde schuld (extinguished debt, paid-off debt), afgeloste schuld (extinguished debt, paid-off debt). (various references) | |
Finnish | sammua (be extinguished, be quenched, become extinct, die down, go out, pass out), kuoletettu velka (extinguished debt, paid-off debt). (various references) | |
French | éteignit, éteignis, éteignirent, éteignîmes. (various references) | |
German | gelöscht (canceled, killed, scratched, slaked), abgelöscht. (various references) | |
Greek | σβηστόσ (off). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכובה, כבוי (extinct, extinction, extinguishing). (various references) | |
Italian | estinto (deceased, extinct). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鎮火. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちんか (sinking, subsidence). (various references) | |
Korean | 진화하는 (Evolved). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extinguisheday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ponto de extinção da chama (point where the flame is extinguished), modo sem incandescência (extinguished mode), dívida extinta (extinguished debt, paid-off debt). (various references) | |
Romanian | stins (departed, dim, extinct, faded, faint, ghastly, out, sickly, withered). (various references) | |
Russian | погасить загашенный. (various references) | |
Spanish | extinguido (extinct). (various references) | |
Swedish | betald skuld (extinguished debt, paid-off debt). (various references) | |
Thai | ดับ (ไฟ, แสง). (various references) | |
Turkish | sönmüş (dead, extinct, gone out, out, put out), sönük (dead pan, dim, extinct, faint, lifeless, spiritless, stagnant, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninspiring, vapid). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | погаслий, погашений. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 9 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Lux iustorum laetificat lucerna autem impiorum extinguetur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The liyt of riytwis men maketh glad; the lanterne forsothe of vnpitous men shal ben quenchid. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be extinguished. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 13, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang kahayag sa matarung malipayon; Apan ang lamparahan sa dautan pagapalongon. |
| Chinese | 義 人 的 光 明 亮 ． 〔 明 亮 原 文 作 歡 喜 〕 惡 人 的 燈 要 熄 滅 。 |
| Croatian | Svjetlost pravednièka blistavo sja, a svjetiljka opakih gasi se. |
| Danish | Retfærdiges Lys bryder frem, gudløses Lampe går ud. |
| Dutch | Het licht der rechtvaardigen zal zich verblijden; maar de lamp der goddelozen zal uitgeblust worden. |
| Finnish | Vanhurskasten valo loistaa iloisesti, mutta jumalattomien lamppu sammuu. |
| French | La lumière des justes est joyeuse, Mais la lampe des méchants s`éteint. |
| German | Das Licht der Gerechten brennt fröhlich; aber die Leuchte der Gottlosen wird auslöschen. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun k'ap mache dwat yo tankou lanp k'ap klere byen klere. Men, mechan yo tankou yon lanp ki prèt pou mouri. |
| Hungarian | Az igazak világossága vígassággal ég; de az istenteleneknek szövétneke kialszik. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang saleh bagaikan cahaya cemerlang; orang jahat bagaikan lampu padam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa terang orang benar akan bercahaya, tetapi pelita orang jahat kelak akan dipadamkan. |
| Italian | La luce dei giusti allieta, la lucerna degli empi si spegne. |
| Maori | ¶ E koa ana te marama o te hunga tika: ka keto ia te rama o te hunga kino. |
| Norwegian | De rettferdiges lys skinner lystig, men de ugudeliges lampe slukner. |
| Portuguese | A luz dos justos alegra; porem a lâmpada dos impios se apagará. |
| Rumanian | Lumina celor neprihqniyi arde voioasq, dar candela celor rqi se stinge. - |
| Russian | уЧЕФ РТБЧЕДОЩИ ЧЕУЕМП ЗПТЙФ, УЧЕФЙМШОЙЛ ЦЕ ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЩИ ХЗБУБЕФ. |
| Spanish | La luz de los justos brilla con alegría, pero la lámpara de los impíos se apagará. |
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Misspellings | |
"Extinguished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extinquished. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extinguished" (pronounced iksti"nggwisht) |
| 9 | -s t i" ng g w i sh t | distinguished, undistinguished. |
| 6 | -ng g w i sh t | anguished, languished. |
| 4 | -w i sh t | relinquished, vanquished. |
| 3 | -i sh t | accomplished, admonished, astonished, banished, blemished, brandished, impoverished, demolished, diminished, embellished, established, finished, flourished, garnished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, punished, reestablished, refinished, refurbished, relished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpublished, unpunished, unvarnished, vanished, varnished. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-h-i-i-n-s-t-u-x" | |
-2 letters: extinguish, gesundheit. | |
-3 letters: distingue, nightside, unsighted. | |
-4 letters: desexing, detinues, dinghies, dingiest, disunite, dungiest, eighties, enthused, eugenist, existing, hedgiest, heisting, hindguts, ingested, nighties, nudities, nutsedge, seething, sheeting, signeted, untidies. | |
-5 letters: deities, dengues, destine, detinue, dieting, dingies, dishing, dunites, dusting, edgiest, editing, endites, enthuse, exigent, existed, exiting, extends, exuding, guested, gunites, heeding, heinies, heisted, hidings, hindgut. | |
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