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extinguish

English

  1. 🔊 terminate, end, or take out
    “Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”
  2. 🔊 put an end to
    “The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children”
  3. 🔊 kill in large numbers
    “the plague wiped out an entire population”
  4. 🔊 extinguish by crushing
    “stub out your cigar”
  5. 🔊 put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
    “Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 extinguir to extinguish, to put out

Similar words

eliminate annihilate eradicate wipe out decimate carry off eliminate get rid of do away with snuff out stub out crush out press out snuff out blow out quench ko abate abolish abscind adumbrate amputate annihilate asphyxiate