"extinguished" in the verb sense
1. snuff out, extinguish
put an end to kill
"The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
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"
3. stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out
extinguish by crushing
"stub out your cigar"
4. extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with
terminate, end, or take out
"Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"
"Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"
"eliminate my debts"
5. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
kill in large numbers
"the plague wiped out an entire population"
"extinguished" in the adjective sense
1. extinguished
of a conditioned response caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
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