Synonyms of extinguishing

extinguishing

verb

present participle of extinguish

1

as in choking

to cause to cease burning

the fire in the skillet was quickly extinguished by slamming the lid on

Synonyms & Similar Words

• choking
• quenching
• blanketing
• dousing
• dowsing
• smothering
• putting out
• suffocating
• snuffing (out)
• blowing out
• stamping (out)
• stubbing
• snubbing (out)
• rubbing out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lighting
• igniting
• firing
• kindling
• inflaming
• enflaming

2

as in destroying

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 & Similar Words

• destroying
• demolishing
• ruining
• shattering
• wrecking
• devastating
• smashing
• overcoming
• damaging
• wasting
• annihilating
• vaporizing
• eroding
• decimating
• razing
• pulverizing
• ravaging
• killing
• marring
• dismantling
• defeating
• removing
• totalling
• crippling
• crushing
• totaling
• subduing
• creaming
• tearing down
• pulling down
• nuking
• blasting
• wracking
• breaking
• doing in
• desolating
• conquering
• injuring
• impairing
• trimming
• dissolving
• eradicating
• licking
• disintegrating
• harming
• rubbing out
• mastering
• surmounting
• spoiling
• mutilating
• deteriorating
• obliterating
• whipping
• prevailing (over)
• dynamiting
• routing
• exterminating
• disfiguring
• clobbering
• winning (against)
• expunging
• undoing
• liquidating
• extirpating
• thrashing
• beating
• defacing
• slaughtering
• scouring
• wearing (away)
• vitiating
• mangling
• besting
• gutting
• disassembling
• triumphing (over)
• assassinating
• murdering
• plundering
• executing
• sweeping (away)
• effacing
• looting
• vandalizing
• walloping
• sacking
• scotching
• overmatching
• trampling
• blowing up
• despoiling
• dispatching
• washing out
• pillaging
• slaying
• wiping out
• massacring
• trouncing
• taking down
• overbearing
• zapping
• trashing
• cutting down
• stamping (out)
• blotting out
• drubbing
• unmaking
• butchering
• skunking
• killing off
• felling
• rooting (out)
• dilapidating
• snuffing (out)
• unbuilding
• mowing (down)
• taking out
• havocking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• building
• constructing
• raising
• erecting
• creating
• repairing
• fixing
• rearing
• setting up
• producing
• making
• forming
• establishing
• putting up
• inventing
• shaping
• manufacturing
• protecting
• assembling
• preserving
• forging
• organizing
• fashioning
• saving
• constituting
• framing
• molding
• instituting
• fabricating
• reconditioning
• patching
• revamping
• conserving
• mending
• restoring
• founding
• bringing about
• doctoring
• rebuilding
• reconstructing
• remodeling
• fathering
• renovating

3

as in shushing

to stop the noise or speech of

her final, telling point extinguished her opponents on the city council

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shushing
• silencing
• quieting
• muting
• settling
• hushing
• quelling
• stilling
• squelching
• dumbing
• shutting up
• quietening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• stirring
• agitating