0 present participle of extinguish --
1 to stop a fire or a light burning: --
to extinguish a cigarette
It took the firefighters several hours to extinguish the flames.
2 to stop or get rid of an idea or feeling: --
Nothing could extinguish his love for her.
Then there would be some possibility of extinguishing the fire.
That is different from waiving or extinguishing a loan.
Carrying that principle a little further, though no such example was quoted, it would decline to assist in such measures as extinguishing fires.
There are also the varying times of extinguishing the lights.
Originally, many years ago, the insurance companies undertook the duty of extinguishing fires.
In consequence, the funds available in 1911 for compensating persons interested in extinguishing licences were very considerably less than they ought to have been.
The difficulty is that there is no means of extinguishing it.
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.
