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extinguish
verb
- To cause to stop burning or giving light: douse, put out, quench, snuff out. See
continue
- To destroy all traces of: abolish, annihilate, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, kill
1, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root
1 (out or up), rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out.
Idioms:
do away with, make an end of, put an end to. See
help, make
- To bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight: choke off, crush, put down, quash, quell, quench, squash, squelch, suppress.
Idiom:
put the lid on. See
continue, win
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Law. To put an end to, especially formally and with authority: abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void. See
continue
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