Definisjon av extinguish

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Verb

extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
eliminate, get rid of, do away with
destruct, destroy destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons"
cancel out, wipe out wipe out the effect of something; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record"
decouple reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
decouple reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
obliterate remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
knock out destroy or break forcefully; "The windows were knocked out"
drown die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating; "The child drowned in the lake"
cut out cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out"
prune, rationalise, rationalize, cut remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"
snuff out, extinguish put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
except, leave out, omit, leave off, exclude, take out stop using; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here"
extinguish - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
eliminate, annihilate, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
kill destroy a vitally essential quality of or in; "Eating artichokes kills the taste of all other foods"
extinguish - 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"
snuff out, blow out, quench
ignite, light cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat; "Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter"; "Light a cigarette"
stub strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object; "She stubbed her toe in the dark and now it's broken"
douse, put out slacken; "douse a rope"
black out suppress by censorship as for political reasons; "parts of the newspaper article were blacked out"
extinguish - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
snuff out
do away with, get rid of, extinguish, eliminate dispose of; "Get rid of these old shoes!"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
stamp destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"
smother, put out conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
extinguish - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"
stub out, crush out, press out
end, terminate bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
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Verb

extinguish - To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
extinguish - To destroy or abolish something.
extinguish - To obscure or eclipse something.
extinguish - To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
extinguish - To hunt down a species to extinction.

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  • extinguish
    Treat something in such a way that it does not exist anymore.
  • extinguish
    To remove or get rid of, as being in some way undesirable.
  • extinguish
    To kill in large numbers.
  • extinguish
    To make something stop burning.
  • extinguish
    To totally stop something which is on fire from burning any more.

Verb

  • Infinitiv: (to) extinguish
  • Presens: extinguish / extinguishes
  • Preteritum: extinguished
  • Perfektum: (have) extinguished

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