Synonyms for extinguish
ɪkˈstɪŋ gwɪʃex·tin·guish

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1. extinguishverb

   Synonyms:
   put out, douse, quench

2. extinguishverb

   to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

   Synonyms:
   douse, quench, put out

3. extinguishverb

   to destroy or abolish something

   She extinguished all my hopes.

   Synonyms:
   douse, quench, put out

4. extinguishverb

   to obscure or eclipse something

   The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.

   Synonyms:
   douse, put out, quench

5. extinguishverb

   to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex

   Synonyms:
   put out, quench, douse

6. extinguishverb

   to hunt down (a species) to extinction

   Synonyms:
   quench, douse, put out

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1. extinguish

   To subvert is to overthrow from or as from the very foundation; utterly destroy; bring to ruin. The word is now generally figurative, as of moral or political ruin. To supersede implies the putting of something that is wisely or unwisely preferred in the place of that which is removed; to subvert does not imply substitution. To supplant is more often personal, signifying to take the place of another, usually by underhanded means; one is superseded by authority, supplanted by a rival. Compare ABOLISH.

   Synonyms:
   destroy, overthrow, overturn, ruin, subvert, supersede, supplant, suppress

   Antonyms:
   conserve, keep, perpetuate, preserve, sustain, uphold

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1. extinguish

   Synonyms:
   abolish, destroy, extirpate, eradicate, kill, quench, annihilate, put out

   Antonyms:
   implant, replenish, cherish, promote, invigorate, propagate, establish, confirm, secure

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1. snuff out, extinguishverb

   put an end to; kill

   "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"

   Synonyms:
   snuff out, annihilate, carry off, quench, blow out, get rid of, stub out, decimate, wipe out, eliminate, press out, eradicate, do away with, crush out

   Antonyms:
   light, ignite

2. snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quenchverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   quell, stub out, eliminate, press out, squelch, blow out, wipe out, allay, decimate, get rid of, burn out, carry off, assuage, crush out, annihilate, snuff out, slake, blow, quench, do away with, eradicate

   Antonyms:
   light, ignite

3. stub out, crush out, extinguish, press outverb

   extinguish by crushing

   "stub out your cigar"

   Synonyms:
   extract, stub out, eliminate, press out, blow out, wipe out, press, decimate, get rid of, carry off, express, crush out, annihilate, snuff out, quench, do away with, eradicate

   Antonyms:
   ignite, light

4. extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away withverb

   terminate, end, or take out

   "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

   Synonyms:
   stub out, eliminate, press out, blow out, rule out, wipe out, abolish, remove, decimate, obviate, winnow out, carry off, egest, crush out, annihilate, pass, reject, snuff out, excrete, rid of, get rid of, quench, do away with, eradicate

   Antonyms:
   light, ignite

5. eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry offverb

   kill in large numbers

   "the plague wiped out an entire population"

   Synonyms:
   obviate, bear off, eat up, crush out, pull off, rule out, exhaust, annihilate, reject, negociate, take away, eliminate, get rid of, manage, bear away, use up, rid of, bring off, extirpate, decimate, exterminate, press out, kill, eat, obliterate, run through, quench, cancel out, snuff out, pass, wipe out, carry away, do away with, stub out, uproot, blow out, winnow out, excrete, root out, erase, sweep away, carry off, consume, egest, deplete, eradicate

   Antonyms:
   light, ignite

Matched Categories

1. • Destroy
   • Eliminate
   • Terminate

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1. extinguishverb

   Synonyms:
   quench, put out

2. extinguishverb

   Synonyms:
   destroy, suppress

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1. List of paraphrases for "extinguish":

   douse

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1. Charles de LEUSSE:

   It doesn’t extinguish the fire with ice. (On n’éteint pas le feu - Avec des glaçons.)

2. Indonesian President Joko Widodo:

   We all know that the burned areas are now widening beyond normal conditions, ...the efforts to extinguish the fires are ongoing now both by land and air. We have to be patient because the burned areas is now wide.

3. Ben Carson:

   We're not in the era now where you send, you know, big armies to fight or, you know, air forces. We're in a place where you use a jet plane as a missile to knock down buildings; where dirty bombs can be used to extinguish large numbers of people, there are lots of different techniques that you use -- cyber-attacks, attacking our electrical grid.

4. Thomas Jefferson:

   If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

5. Michael Goldberg:

   Although we have not seen the charges, there is no question that there was a large fire and an enormous effort to extinguish it which resulted in a discharge into Tucker Bayou.