extinguished
Meaning of extinguished
verb, past tense
- 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 extinguished
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of extinguished
ex-tin-guished
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- extinguished is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
extinguished synonyms
Meaning extinguish (a fire or light):
Meaning satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking:
Meaning extinguish (a fire) by covering it:
extinguished antonyms
Meaning provide with light or lighting; illuminate:
Words that rhyme with extinguished
shed, abashed, alewashed, ashed, backlashed, backwashed, bashed, bedashed, besplashed, brainwashed, brashed, cashed, clashed, colourwashed, crashed, dashed, deashed, earbashed, encashed, fashed, flashed, gashed, gatecrashed, gnashed, greenwashed, hashed, interdashed, kourbashed, kurbashed, lashed, leashed, mashed, outflashed, pashed, pebbledashed, plashed, potashed, prewashed, quashed, rainwashed, rashed, rehashed, rewashed, sashed, shashed, siwashed, slashed, smashed, snashed, spatterdashed
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