0 past simple and past 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.
Yet if the candle is extinguished, the same region looks white.
Further, its reification has largely extinguished consideration of alternative classificatory models for depressive disorders.
Then the face of the sun was eaten; then the face of the sun was darkened; then its face was extinguished.
One could argue that the war consumed itself, but that the tensions that fuelled it were not completely extinguished.
While they were sleeping, after the lamps were extinguished, the raven started dancing and jumping on the iglus and on the cliff.
Over the course of thousands of trials these illicit combinations were gradually extinguished.
This granted the creatures a positive tropism towards light; however, their own lamps would be extinguished if the new light signal became too powerful.
That the original fear association still exists underneath the blanket of safety is suggested by observations that extinguished fears can return spontaneously.
