0 present participle of extinguish
1 to stop a fire or a light burning:
It took the firefighters several hours to extinguish the flames.
to extinguish a cigarette
2 to stop or get rid of an idea or feeling:
Nothing could extinguish his love for her.
Both solutions deal with the problem of inconsistency without extinguishing one side or the other of the conflict.
Note the narrow elongated structures enhancing significantly the chance of extinguishing one or the other life form.
Extinguishing common rights had been seen as a way of creating a more malleable agricultural workforce dependent on wage-labour.
Foveal cells were not fixation cells because briefly extinguishing a fixated target caused an interruption in activity.
For example, if the fire service is unable to determine which extinguishing agent they need for the good being transported, this can have fatal consequences.
But when a fire caused by this intense heat has started, water is undoubtedly the best means of extinguishing it.
We shall have solved the problem by extinguishing the territory.
Forty-one acres of plantations were burnt with a loss of£650; damage to buildings was valued at£140, and£85 was spent in extinguishing the fires.
