Hypertext Webster Gateway: "extinguished"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Extinguished}; p
pr. & vb. n. {Extinguishing}.] [L. extinguere, exstinguere;
ex out + stinguere to quench. See {Distinguish}, {Finish}.]
1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to
cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to
extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense
or a right.

A light which the fierce winds have no power to
extinguish. --Prescott.

This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
--Blackstone.

2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Natural graces that extinguish art. --Shak
.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

extinguished
adj 1: (psychology) of a conditioned response; caused to die out
because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
2: of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his
extinct cigarette into the stream"; "faint smoke from the
extinguished candle"; "the fire is out"; "the quenched
flames" [syn: {extinct}, {out(p)}, {quenched}]


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