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extinguishes
Synonyms and Antonyms of extinguishes
- the fire in the skillet was quickly extinguished by slamming the lid on
- a fatal blunder that extinguished all hope that the team would actually win the play-offs
beats, bests, clobbers, conquers, crushes, defeats, drubs, licks, masters, overbears, overcomes, overmatches, prevails (over), routs, scotches, skunks, subdues, surmounts, thrashes, trims, triumphs (over), trounces, wallops, whips, wins (against)
blasts, blows up, breaks, cripples, damages, defaces, deteriorates, disfigures, disintegrates, dissolves, dynamites, harms, impairs, injures, mangles, mars, mutilates, spoils, vitiates
erodes, scours, sweeps (away), washes out, wears (away)
dilapidates, disassembles, dismantles, guts, takes down, unbuilds, undoes, unmakes
blots out, effaces, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extirpates, liquidates, obliterates, removes, roots (out), snuffs (out), stamps (out), wipes out
despoils, havocs, loots, pillages, plunders, ravages, sacks, tramples, trashes, vandalizes
assassinates, butchers, cuts down, dispatches, executes, fells, kills, kills off, massacres, mows (down), murders, slaughters, slays, takes out, zaps
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