0 to stop a fire or a light burning:
It took the firefighters several hours to extinguish the flames.
to extinguish a cigarette
1 to stop or get rid of an idea or feeling:
Nothing could extinguish his love for her.
2 to stop a fire or light from burning:
It took the firefighters four hours to extinguish the flames.
3 to take something away, for example a right to do something:
A deed restriction extinguishes the right to use or develop a property for certain things.
The target was extinguished once the monkey had made a saccadic eye movement to it.
Many surface fires burn during the day, only to be extinguished when relative humidity increases in the evening.
At the end of the initial fixation period, the spot was then extinguished for 1.0 s and then turned back on.
In operant learning, organisms react to sequences of events that result in cumulative changes - behaviors are reinforced or extinguished.
If the environment changes too rapidly, the behavior may be extinguished.
At the same time, other variants may no longer appear or be extinguished, in the terminology used by behaviour analysts.
Later deformations obliterated and partly extinguished possible shear sense indicators so that the shear sense can hardly be determined.
The unique sounds of the world's small-scale languages are being extinguished at an alarming rate.
