| 单词 | extinguish |
| 释义 | extinguish (once / 471 pages) v To extinguish something means to put an end to it, and get rid of it completely. Water can extinguish a fire; nasty smells can extinguish your appetite. Extinguish comes from the Latin word for quench, but while we might think that quenching something, say our thirst, is good, the word extinguish often has sinister overtones. In a genocide, one group tries to extinguish another — too quench their hatred, by killing everyone in the other group. WORD FAMILYextinguish: extinguishable, extinguished, extinguisher, extinguishes, extinguishing+/extinguishable: inextinguishable/extinguisher: extinguishers/inextinguishable: inextinguishably USAGE EXAMPLESMartin Fire Chief Jamie Summers tells media outlets that the fire occurred Sunday night and was extinguished after four hours. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Any hope of extending that streak seemed to be extinguished for USC after its loss to Utah in September. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) The blaze was extinguished swiftly by other people at the scene, but the man was seriously injured. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v put out, as of fires, flames, or lights Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained Syn|Ant|Hypo blow out, quench, snuff out ignite, light cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat stub extinguish by crushing douse, put output out, as of a candle or a light black outobliterate or extinguish 2v extinguish by crushing Syn|Hyper crush out, press out, stub out end, terminate bring to an end or halt 3v put an end to; kill Syn|Hypo|Hyper snuff out stamp destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot put out, smotherdeprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion do away with, eliminate, get rid of terminate, end, or take out 4v terminate, end, or take out Socialism extinguished these archaic customs Syn|Hypo|Hyper do away with, eliminate, get rid of cancel out, wipe out wipe out the effect of something decouplereduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another) decoupleeliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) obliteratedo away with completely, without leaving a trace knock outeliminate drownget rid of as if by submerging cut outdelete or remove cut, prune, rationalise, rationalizeweed out unwanted or unnecessary things snuff output an end to; kill except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take outprevent from being included or considered or accepted exciseremove by cutting stampdestroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot elideleave or strike out put out, smotherdeprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion destroy, destruct do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of 5v kill in large numbers Syn|Hyper annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out decimate kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly |
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