extinguish

[US]/ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ/
[UK]/ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. put out, quench, make something no longer exist.

Phrases & Collocations

extinguish the fire

extinguish the candle

extinguish the flames

Example Sentences

extinguish one's faith in future

a self-extinguishing cigarette; a self-extinguishing light.

hope is extinguished little by little.

Self-extinguishing, no fusion and no drippage.

Water extinguished the fire.

extinguished their title to the property.

firemen were soaking everything to extinguish the blaze.

a look which would have extinguished any man.

kept a fire extinguisher available at all times.

You may extinguish a nation, but not the love of liberty.

She was extinguished by her sister.

Repeated rebuffs couldn't extinguish my enthusiasm.

If a forest fire cannot be extinguished, devastation is sure to ensue.

His discovery extinguished the achievements of his colleague.

Jack was not exactly popular after the incident with the fire-extinguisher.

For ultimately one day fire is automatically extinguished on a grassless, barren ground.

We’ve installed an extinguisher next to the cooker in case there is ever a fire.

According to action principle, extinguishing process and efficiency of the sprinkler systems, it is put forward that the ringed arrangements replace the ramiform arrangements.

Comparison experiments of water mist with polycomponent water mist,and the test on polycomponent water mist's extinguishing efficiency against ethanol and ethanol motor spirit fire were done.

It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his hopes were extinguished one after the other, M.Mabeuf remained rather puerilely, but profoundly serene.

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