extinguish
English
/ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
verb
Definitions
- (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) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
- (transitive) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
- (intransitive) To die out.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extinguo (quench, put out, abolish, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy).
Origin
Latin
extinguo
Gloss
quench, put out, abolish, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- extinguishable English
- extinguishant English
- extinguisher English
- extinguishest English
- extinguisheth English
- extinguishment English
- inextinguishability English
- inextinguishable English
- unextinguishable English
- exstinctio Latin
- exstinctor Latin
- extinguo Latin
- stinguō Latin
- estinguere Italian
- extincteur French
- éteignoir French
- éteindre French
- extingar Ido
- esteindre Middle French
- teigné Louisiana Creole French