extinguish
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- v put an end to; kill
- v put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained - v extinguish by crushing
- v terminate, end, or take out
Socialism extinguished these archaic customs - v kill in large numbers
- There's no smoldering scandal to extinguish, no battered confidence to restore, no eroding margins to reverse.
- Pakistani fire fighters attempt to extinguish a fire after rioters set ablaze several shops at a timber market in Karachi on November 30, 2008.
- At first, the ruling junta, which has maintained an iron grip for 45 years, tried to extinguish the protest movement by arresting dozens of pro-democracy activists.