Word Finder - extinguishing

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To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

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To destroy or abolish something

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She extinguished all my hopes.

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To obscure or eclipse something

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The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.

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To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex

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Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.

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To hunt down (a species) to extinction

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To die out.

The chamber's drapes were drawn, extinguishing all but enough light to see.

The difficulty of extinguishing an underground fire in this way is, however, very great, as on account of the poisonous products of combustion it is impossible to attack it except in the rear, and even there the men are always in great danger from the reversal of the FIG.

But the emperor himself lived long enough to see that his romantic policy of restoration was to leave no results; and after his early death all hope of extinguishing Christianity was abandoned.

Spanish dancers were spotted, and the obligatory extinguishing of torches revealed copious luminescence.

The three powers, Russia, Austria and Prussia, made this a pretext for extinguishing this independent state; and as the outcome of a conference at Vienna (November 1846) the three courts, contrary to the assurance previously given, and in opposition to the expressed views of the British and French governments, decided to extinguish the state of Cracow and to incorporate it with the dominions of Austria.

If you try to pick it up shortly after extinguishing the flame, you could burn your hand.

Use water in any way possible, including extinguishing torches and filling empty buckets.

A larger wick may also be needed if your candle keeps extinguishing itself.

While this may not sound like much, it plays a tremendous role in extinguishing those extra 60 "cookie" calories.

Various devices have been suggested for extinguishing the arc and yet allowing the condenser oscillatory discharge to take place.

Milwaukee was on the direct route of travel between Fort Dearborn (Chicago) and the flourishing settlement at Green Bay, and at once after the treaties between the United States and the Menominee in 1831 and 1833 for the extinguishing of the Indian titles, settlers began to come to the neighbourhood.

In the end the federal government assumed the railway debt, arrangements were made for extinguishing certain proprietary rights which had long been a source of discontent, and on the 1st of July 1873 the Dominion was rounded off by the accession of the new province.

Rule Iii.-Extinguishing Fire On Shipboard Damage done to a ship and cargo, or either of them, by water or otherwise, including damage by beaching or scuttling a burning ship, in extinguishing a fire on board the ship, shall be made good as G.A.; except that no compensation shall be made for damage to such portions of the ship and bulk cargo, or to such separate packages of cargo, as have been on fire.

This treatment, so far from extinguishing the flame, eventually converted it into a conflagration.

The state makes large appropriations for preventing and extinguishing forest fires, and in 1903 established a department of forestry in the university of Maine.

In vain Sieyes remarked that in extinguishing tithes the Assembly was making a present to every landed proprietor.

With him, as with all his successors, the idea of a collective expedition of Europe for the recovery of the Holy Places was always associated with the sanguine hope of extinguishing the schism at Constantinople, its very centre, by the substitution of a Latin for a Byzantine domination.

This decision greatly irritated the political leaders of Georgia, and the question of extinguishing the Indian titles, on which there had long been a disagreement, caused further and even more serious friction between the Federal and state authorities.