Definition of extinguished

"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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Quotations for extinguished

Fire is not extinguished by fire. [ Italian Proverb ]

Lies exist only to be extinguished. [ Carlyle ]

His genius quite obscured the brightest ray
Of human thought, as Sol's effulgent beams
At morn's approach, extinguished all the stars. [ R. Wynne ]

Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished. [ Bacon ]

Love extinguished can be rekindled: love worn out - never.

Love often reillumes his extinguished flame at the torch of jealousy. [ Lady Blessington ]

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die. [ Cicero ]

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. [ Burton ]

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. [ Johnson ]

extinguished in Scrabble®

The word extinguished is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 24

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters extinguished:

EXTINGUISHED
(243)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (44 words)

deities, dengues, destine, detinue, detunes, dieties, dietine, dieting, dingies, dishing, dunites, dusting, edgiest, editing, ensuite, enthuse, exigent, existed, exiting, extends, exuding, guested, heeding, heisted, hidings, hindgut, husting, ignited, ignites, indexes, indites, insight, neighed, nightie, nutseed, seeding, shindig, shunted, sighted, sixteen, suiting, tidings, unities, unsexed

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word extinguished

EXTINGUISHED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In extinguished

EXTINGUISHED
(243)
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EXTINGUISHED
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extinguished in Words With Friends™

The word extinguished is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 26

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters extinguished:

EXTINGUISHED
(306)
EXTINGUISHED
(306)
EXTINGUISHED
(306)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (44 words)

deities, dengues, destine, detinue, detunes, dieties, dietine, dieting, dingies, dishing, dunites, dusting, edgiest, editing, ensuite, enthuse, exigent, existed, exiting, extends, exuding, guested, heeding, heisted, hidings, hindgut, husting, ignited, ignites, indexes, indites, insight, neighed, nightie, nutseed, seeding, shindig, shunted, sighted, sixteen, suiting, tidings, unities, unsexed

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word extinguished

EXTINGUISHED
(306)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In extinguished

EXTINGUISHED
(306)
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EXTINGUISHED
(288)
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UNISEX
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Words within the letters of extinguished

2 letter words in extinguished (14 words)

9 letter words in extinguished (1 word)

10 letter words in extinguished (1 word)

12 letter words in extinguished (1 word)

extinguished + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence extinguished

Words that start with extinguished (1 word)

Words with extinguished in them (1 word)

Words that end with extinguished (2 words)

Word Growth involving extinguished

Shorter words in extinguished

ex extinguish

is extinguish

in tin ting extinguish

he she shed

Longer words containing extinguished

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