extinguish
Meaning of extinguish
verb
- cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
firemen were soaking everything to extinguish the blaze
mid 16th century: from Latin exstinguere, from ex- ‘out’ + stinguere ‘quench’. Compare with distinguish.
Information about extinguish
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of extinguish
ex-tin-guish
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- extinguish is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
extinguish synonyms
Meaning snuff out:
Meaning eliminate:
eliminate, annihilate, eradicate, decimate
Meaning extinguish (a fire or light):
Meaning extinguish (a fire) by covering it:
extinguish antonyms
Meaning provide with light or lighting; illuminate:
Translation of extinguish
- French: éteindre, effacer, éliminer
- Italian: estinguere, abolire, rimuovere, eliminare, sopprimere, annientare, decimare, distruggere, sterminare, spegnere
- German: tilgen, vertilgen, eliminieren, vernichten, dezimieren, auslöschen, ausblasen, auspusten, löschen, ausmachen
- Spanish: liquidar, saldar, eliminar, extinguir, aniquilar, erradicar, diezmar, exterminar, apagar
- Portuguese: extinguir, eliminar
Words that rhyme with extinguish
beauish, cuish, aguish, anguish, broguish, cataloguish, contradistinguish, counterdistinguish, distinguish, enanguish, interdistinguish, languish, misdistinguish, pedagoguish, predistinguish, preextinguish, redistinguish, roguish, subdistinguish, undistinguish, vaguish, voguish, bluish, gluish, cliquish, derelinquish, linquish, mosquish, picturesquish, relinquish, squish, vanquish, vinquish, truish
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