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extinguish

 
Verb extinguish has 4 senses
  1. snuff out, extinguish - put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
    --1 is one way to eliminate, get rid of, do away with
    Derived form: noun extinction6
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
  2. snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench - 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"
    Antonyms: ignite, light
    Derived forms: noun extinction6, noun extinguisher1, noun extinguishing1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out - extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"
    --3 is one way to end, terminate
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  4. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off - kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
    --4 is one way to kill
    Derived form: noun extinction4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
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