Extinguish
verb
To put out a fire or a light.
He extinguished the candle.
Often appears as...
- extinguish a fire
- extinguish a light
verb
To stop something from continuing to exist.
The proposed law could extinguish our freedom of speech.
Often appears as...
- extinguish a habit
- extinguish a passion
verb
To pay back a debt completely.
After years of careful savings, they finally extinguished the mortgage.
Often appears as...
- extinguish a mortgage
- extinguish a loan
verb
To put out a fire or a light.
He extinguished the candle.
Often appears as...
- extinguish a fire
- extinguish a light
verb
To stop something from continuing to exist.
The proposed law could extinguish our freedom of speech.
Often appears as...
- extinguish a habit
- extinguish a passion
verb
To pay back a debt completely.
After years of careful savings, they finally extinguished the mortgage.
Often appears as...
- extinguish a mortgage
- extinguish a loan
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Literal Action
Used when someone physically puts out a fire or light.
Firefighters regularly extinguish fires in emergency situations.
Pro Tip 2/2Complete Action
Emphasizes that the fire or light is gone, not just reduced.
Please make sure you extinguish the campfire completely before leaving.
Pro Tip 1/2Literal Action
Used when someone physically puts out a fire or light.
Firefighters regularly extinguish fires in emergency situations.
Pro Tip 2/2Complete Action
Emphasizes that the fire or light is gone, not just reduced.
Please make sure you extinguish the campfire completely before leaving.
Pro Tip 1/2Literal Action
Used when someone physically puts out a fire or light.
Firefighters regularly extinguish fires in emergency situations.
Pro Tip 2/2Complete Action
Emphasizes that the fire or light is gone, not just reduced.
Please make sure you extinguish the campfire completely before leaving.
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Adam Savage: My...
where the dodo bird was discovered and extinguished, all within about 150 years. Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find, because it meant that they might finally be able to assemble a single dodo skeleton. See, while museums all over the world have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --
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Why do we love? A...
Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire
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The Boltzmann brain...
Every one universe produced by random fluctuations has equivalent odds to heaps upon heaps of insta-brains. So by this reasoning, it seems extremely more likely that everything you believe to exist is actually a brief illusion, soon to be extinguished.
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How to get empowered,...
and the growing wisdom with which we manage it. But this is going to require a change of strategy because our old strategy has been learning from mistakes. We invented fire, screwed up a bunch of times -- invented the fire extinguisher.
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Capitalism will eat...
too terrified to invest it into the productive activities that can generate the incomes from which you can extinguish the mountain of debts and which can produce all those things that humanity desperately needs, like green energy.
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This ancient rock is...
Unfortunately, the ironic twist here could see the demise of humanity. And so maybe the reason we aren't connecting with life elsewhere, intelligent life elsewhere, is that once it evolves, it extinguishes itself quickly.
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How fashion helps us...
They'll get used to this, and they, too, might begin to see anything different as dirty, something to be hated, something to be extinguished, like lights to be put out, one by one, until darkness becomes a way of life.
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Welcome to Earth PIPE...
a small plane will fist bumps a man i ask the best modern-day explorers take me to the ends of the earth and they said oh we can go further than that three two one a submarine's lights extinguish
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Advice from the world’s...
mesmerizing mistress of perpetual reinvention dyeing her hair again Madge again in her goatee a pointy poor outfit so the Queen with a fire extinguisher between her legs because it was that
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Is Humanity The Next...
releasing carbon dioxide at an even greater rate than the prehistoric mega eruptions that extinguished life in the past
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Adam Savage: My...
where the dodo bird was discovered and extinguished, all within about 150 years. Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find, because it meant that they might finally be able to assemble a single dodo skeleton. See, while museums all over the world have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --
Video examples
Why do we love? A...
Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire
Video examples
The Boltzmann brain...
Every one universe produced by random fluctuations has equivalent odds to heaps upon heaps of insta-brains. So by this reasoning, it seems extremely more likely that everything you believe to exist is actually a brief illusion, soon to be extinguished.
Video examples
How to get empowered,...
and the growing wisdom with which we manage it. But this is going to require a change of strategy because our old strategy has been learning from mistakes. We invented fire, screwed up a bunch of times -- invented the fire extinguisher.
Video examples
Capitalism will eat...
too terrified to invest it into the productive activities that can generate the incomes from which you can extinguish the mountain of debts and which can produce all those things that humanity desperately needs, like green energy.
Video examples
This ancient rock is...
Unfortunately, the ironic twist here could see the demise of humanity. And so maybe the reason we aren't connecting with life elsewhere, intelligent life elsewhere, is that once it evolves, it extinguishes itself quickly.
Video examples
How fashion helps us...
They'll get used to this, and they, too, might begin to see anything different as dirty, something to be hated, something to be extinguished, like lights to be put out, one by one, until darkness becomes a way of life.
Video examples
Welcome to Earth PIPE...
a small plane will fist bumps a man i ask the best modern-day explorers take me to the ends of the earth and they said oh we can go further than that three two one a submarine's lights extinguish
Video examples
Advice from the world’s...
mesmerizing mistress of perpetual reinvention dyeing her hair again Madge again in her goatee a pointy poor outfit so the Queen with a fire extinguisher between her legs because it was that
Video examples
Is Humanity The Next...
releasing carbon dioxide at an even greater rate than the prehistoric mega eruptions that extinguished life in the past
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
American Author
Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
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Timothy B. Schmit
American Musician
I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.
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Jean Dujardin
French Actor
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
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John Ashcroft
American Public Servant
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
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Terry Waite
British Author
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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Ingmar Bergman
Swedish Director
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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Ivan Turgenev
Russian Novelist
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
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William Penn
English Leader
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Gaylord Nelson
American Politician
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
American Author
Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.
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Timothy B. Schmit
American Musician
I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.
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Jean Dujardin
French Actor
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
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John Ashcroft
American Public Servant
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.
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Terry Waite
British Author
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
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Ingmar Bergman
Swedish Director
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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Ivan Turgenev
Russian Novelist
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
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William Penn
English Leader
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
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Gaylord Nelson
American Politician
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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