eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
(verb) kill in large numbers; “the plague wiped out an entire population”
extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with
(verb) terminate, end, or take out; “Let’s eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”; “Socialism extinguished these archaic customs”; “eliminate my debts”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
extinguish (third-person singular simple present extinguishes, present participle extinguishing, simple past and past participle extinguished)
(transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
(transitive) to destroy or abolish something
(transitive) to obscure or eclipse something
(transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
(transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
(intransitive) To die out.
• put out, quench, douse
• See also destroy
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*tin"guish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extinguished(); p pr. & vb. n. Extinguishing.] Etym: [L. extinguere, exstinguere; ex out + stinguere to quench. See Distinguish, Finish.]
1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish. Prescott. This extinguishes my right to the reversion. Blackstone.
2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. Natural graces that extinguish art. Shak .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 January 2025
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; “the political ferment produced new leadership”; “social unrest”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
