verb [VN]
1 to make a fire stop burning or a light stop shining
SYNPUTOUT:
Firefighters tried to extinguish the flames. * (formal) All lights had been extinguished.
2 to destroy sth:
News of the bombing extinguished all hope of peace.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of extinguish come from?
This entry for extinguish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does extinguish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — extinguish appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
