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present participle of extinguish
Synonyms & Antonyms of extinguishing
1
to cause to cease burning
- the fire in the skillet was quickly extinguished by slamming the lid on
Synonyms for extinguishing
- blanketing,
- dousing
- (also dowsing),
- putting out,
- quenching,
- snuffing (out)
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Antonyms for extinguishing
2
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
Synonyms for extinguishing
Words Related to extinguishing
- beating,
- besting,
- clobbering,
- conquering,
- crushing,
- defeating,
- drubbing,
- licking,
- mastering,
- overbearing,
- overcoming,
- overmatching,
- prevailing (over),
- routing,
- scotching,
- skunking,
- subduing,
- surmounting,
- thrashing,
- trimming,
- triumphing (over),
- trouncing,
- walloping,
- whipping,
- winning (against)
- blasting,
- blowing up,
- breaking,
- crippling,
- damaging,
- defacing,
- deteriorating,
- disfiguring,
- disintegrating,
- dissolving,
- dynamiting,
- harming,
- impairing,
- injuring,
- mangling,
- marring,
- mutilating,
- spoiling,
- vitiating
- blotting out,
- effacing,
- eradicating,
- expunging,
- exterminating,
- extirpating,
- liquidating,
- obliterating,
- removing,
- rooting (out),
- snuffing (out),
- stamping (out),
- wiping out
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3
to stop the noise or speech of
- her final, telling point extinguished her opponents on the city council
Synonyms for extinguishing
- dumbing,
- hushing,
- muting,
- quelling,
- quietening
- [chiefly British],
- quieting,
- settling,
- shushing,
- shutting up,
- silencing,
- squelching,
- stilling
Near Antonyms for extinguishing
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