extinguish

Anlam (İngilizce)

  1. (transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To kill (someone).
  4. (figuratively, transitive) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
  6. (figuratively, transitive) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
  7. (figuratively, transitive) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
  8. (intransitive, reflexive) To die out.

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Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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.

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