extinguish

  • 111obliterate — I verb abolere, abolish, annihilate, annul, blot out, bring to nothing, cancel, conceal, consume, cover, cover up, defeat, delere, delete, demolish, deracinate, desolate, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dispel, dissipate, dissolve,… …

    Law dictionary

  • 112fire — I n. destructive burning 1) to set, start a fire; to set fire to (they set fire to the barn) 2) to catch fire (the house caught fire) 3) to contain; extinguish, put out; stamp out a fire; to bring a fire under control 4) a raging, roaring fire 5) …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 113smother — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. suffocate, stifle; suppress, repress; extinguish, deaden. See killing, restraint, death. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. stifle, suffocate, suppress; see choke 1 , 2 , extinguish 1 . III (Roget s 3… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 114hwapjan — (*) [akin to Lat vapor] : extinguish. Deriv. hwapnan (*) be extinguished. Comp. afhwapjan extinguish, afhwapnan extinguish, unhwapnands unextinguishable …

    Gothic dictionary with etymologies

  • 115distinguish — 1560s, from M.Fr. distinguiss , stem of distinguer, or directly from L. distinguere to separate between, separate by pricking, from dis apart (see DIS (Cf. dis )) + stinguere to prick (see EXTINGUISH (Cf. extinguish), and Cf. L. instinguere …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 116fire — 1 noun 1 BURNING (U) the flames, light and heat produced when something burns: The warehouse was completely destroyed by fire. | be on fire (=be burning): The house is on fire! | catch fire/catch on fire (=start to burn): Mary knocked the candle… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 117abolish — abolish, annihilate, extinguish, abate share the meaning to make nonexistent. Abolish seldom refers to purely physical objects but rather to such things as are the outgrowth of law, custom, human conception, or the conditions of human existence… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 118crush — vb 1 Crush, mash, smash, bruise, squash, macerate are comparable when they mean to reduce or be reduced to a pulpy or broken mass. Crush implies a compressing between two hard or resistant surfaces that succeeds, usually, in destroying the shape… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 119ἀποσβέσει — ἀπόσβεσις extinction fem nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) ἀποσβέσεϊ , ἀπόσβεσις extinction fem dat sg (epic) ἀπόσβεσις extinction fem dat sg (attic ionic) ἀποσβέννυμι extinguish aor subj act 3rd sg (epic) ἀποσβέννυμι extinguish fut ind mid 2nd sg… …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)

  • 120ἀποσβέσουσι — ἀποσβέννυμι extinguish aor subj act 3rd pl (epic) ἀποσβέννυμι extinguish fut part act masc/neut dat pl (attic epic doric ionic) ἀποσβέννυμι extinguish fut ind act 3rd pl (attic epic doric ionic) …

    Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)