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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extinguished}; p pr & vb n. {Extinguishing}.] [L. extinguere exstinguere ex out + stinguere to quench. See {Distinguish}, {Finish}.] 1. 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 A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. --Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. --Blackstone. 2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. Natural graces that extinguish art. --Shak . From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: extinguished adj 1: (psychology) of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement 2: of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "faint smoke from the extinguished candle"; "the fire is out"; "the quenched flames" [syn: {extinct}, {out(p)}, {quenched}]
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