1
as in to choke
to cause to cease burning
the fire in the skillet was quickly extinguished by slamming the lid on
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2
as in to destroy
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of
a fatal blunder that extinguished all hope that the team would actually win the play-offs
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Recent Examples of extinguish
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which charred about a 10-by-10-foot patch of vegetation between the northbound and southbound lanes of South Mission Road near Airpark Road, Choi said.
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Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which police said was contained in one room.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
For the next six hours, Carter helped secure buildings, evacuate staff, and extinguish spot fires.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Police and emergency personnel responded to a fire at the Chabad of Charlotte County synagogue in Punta Gorda, Florida, late Friday night, where crews quickly extinguished the blaze, officials said.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2025
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Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2025
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire, which police said was contained in one room.
—Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
For the next six hours, Carter helped secure buildings, evacuate staff, and extinguish spot fires.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Police and emergency personnel responded to a fire at the Chabad of Charlotte County synagogue in Punta Gorda, Florida, late Friday night, where crews quickly extinguished the blaze, officials said.
—Mason Leath, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extinguish
Verb
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Foreign material in food products presents health risks, including choking, damage to teeth and digestive tract injury.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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The punishment was allegedly being body slammed and choked.—
DeMicia Inman,
VIBE.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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Mayor Vitali Klitschko said a five-floor apartment building in the Solomyanskyi district was partially destroyed and caught fire.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
28 Sep. 2025
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Mexico built a hydroelectric dam, where these golden barrel cactuses live and in an instant their environment was destroyed and this species was almost wiped out.—
Eyder Peralta,
NPR,
28 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Booing begins, and then shushing, and then booing again.—
Matthew Shen Goodman,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Jena asked, for which she was shushed), that was spotted and strong enough to kill a man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Traditional methods rely on heating metals to extreme temperatures, then rapidly quenching them to trap atoms in a chaotic arrangement.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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Use the upcoming weeks to quench the thirst for fulfillment.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
18 Sep. 2025
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Of the 27 homes on their street in the Rollins neighborhood, 25 were either destroyed, demolished or suffered extensive damage that left them unlivable until they could be gutted and rebuilt, Heath said.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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While the tower still exists and houses seniors, the cottages were demolished to make way for a mixed-income development.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Government shouldn't silence speech.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Just as the geographical Palestinian homeland must be seized by Zionist forces, all resistance quelled and all Indigenous Palestinians ultimately expelled and silenced forever, so too must any and all electronic trace of support for Palestinian freedom be expunged from the database.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Outside, the rain douses the flames at the cooperage, but the situation still seems a bit explosive.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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Carr ends up tripping and falling down stairs, eating soup laced with Plan B One Step emergency contraceptive, and getting doused in cat feces, which leads to him contracting toxoplasmosis, a parasite that can be transferred to fetuses during pregnancy.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
25 Sep. 2025
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However, for some, gambling is an addiction that can ruin lives and families.—
Don Sweeney,
Miami Herald,
23 Sep. 2025
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Doing so could compromise the slight taper at the hem, ruining the silhouette.—
Shea Simmons,
PEOPLE,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Extinguish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extinguish. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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