extinguish
1. put an end to;
kill (Freq. 1)
- The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children
• Syn:
snuff out
• Derivationally related forms:
extinction, snuffer (for: snuff out)
• Hypernyms:
eliminate, get rid of, do away with
• Hyponyms:
stamp, smother, put out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. extinguish by crushing
- stub out your cigar
• Syn:
stub out, crush out, press out
• Hypernyms:
end, terminate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. 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
• Syn:
snuff out, blow out, quench
• Ant:
ignite
• Derivationally related forms:
quenching (for: quench), extinction, extinguisher, extinguishing
• Hyponyms:
stub, douse, put out, black out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
4. terminate, end, or take out
- Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics
- Socialism extinguished these archaic customs
- eliminate my debts
• Syn:
eliminate, get rid of, do away with
• Derivationally related forms:
elimination (for: eliminate), eliminator (for: eliminate)
• Hypernyms:
destroy, destruct
• Hyponyms:
cancel out, wipe out, decouple, obliterate, knock out,
drown, cut out, cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise,
rationalise, exclude, except, leave out, leave off,
omit, take out
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
5. kill in large numbers
- the plague wiped out an entire population
• Syn:
eliminate, annihilate, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
• Derivationally related forms:
decimation (for: decimate), wipeout (for: wipe out), extinction, annihilative (for: annihilate), annihilation (for: annihilate), annihilator (for: annihilate)
• Hypernyms:
kill
• Verb Group:
decimate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
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