0 past simple and past 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.
At the end of the initial fixation period, the spot was then extinguished for 1.0 s and then turned back on.
Many surface fires burn during the day, only to be extinguished when relative humidity increases in the evening.
The target was extinguished once the monkey had made a saccadic eye movement to it.
This was routinely extinguished during receptive-field plotting and for some stimulus testing.
Nor is the credit exposure automatically extinguished by unit-linked securitization of the scheme, where this path is followed.
And because they are relative, they may reasonably be limited by means of regulation or extinguished through compulsory purchase.
It is true that in operant learning, behavior is reinforced or extinguished according to the pragmatic outcome.
That the original fear association still exists underneath the blanket of safety is suggested by observations that extinguished fears can return spontaneously.
