extinguish
extinguish is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. Face value is 21 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
- transitive verb. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
- verb. kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
- verb. terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
"Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
- verb. put an end to; kill
"The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
- verb. extinguish by crushing
"stub out your cigar"
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
annihilate, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, quench
Common word forms
extinguished, extinguisher, extinguishes, extinguishing, extinguishable, extinguishment
Words from these letters
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