extinguish

Verb

put an end to; kill
put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
- "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"
extinguish by crushing
terminate, end, or take out
- "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
kill in large numbers
To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
To kill (someone).
To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
To die out.

Examples

A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison
Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.
She extinguished all my hopes.
The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct.

Synonyms

annihilate, blow out, carry off, crush out, decimate, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, get rid of, press out, quench, snuff out, stub out, wipe out, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, douse, erase, exterminate, extinct, extinguish, extirpate, fuck, harry, jazz, lay waste, level, liquidate, nuke, obliterate, pull down, pulverize, race, ravage, raze, remove, ruin, stamp out, total, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, waste, wipe off, wreck

Antonyms

ignite

Scrabble Score: 21

extinguish: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
extinguish: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
extinguish: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 23

extinguish: valid Words With Friends Word