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Meanings of extinguish in English
Synonyms
Examples for "quench"
Examples for "quench"
1
No: the river should wash the blood away and quench the fire.
2
Nick wished he could find some water, something to quench the burning.
3
Piecemeal firefighting may not quench the firestorm threatening to engulf the continent.
4
He does not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax.
5
The bruised reed he will not break, nor quench the smoking flax.
1
The result will be put out to public comment for 15 days.
2
Any new proposals will of course be put out to public consultation.
3
However, feelers were put out, which soon led to my welcome release.
4
They're far better than what was put out there. TV: 1 p.m.
5
I really think that you have to put out a good product.
1
Often just a simple cold suffices to snuff out the flickering life.
2
That you and I cannot take snuff out of the same box.
3
At last, though, Roderick had a chance to snuff out the uprising.
4
Will he snuff out the opposition or a blow a few caskets?
5
Men die of vices every day; women snuff out like candles.
1
His fingers blow out like smoke, his head ripples in the gale.
2
A wind has begun to blow out of the south and west.
3
She did not blow out the candle, but lay staring at it.
4
So, for a hundred years, Northwind tried to blow out the Sun.
5
The dust is blown out in a cloud high in the air.
Usage of extinguish in English
1
The best way would be to extinguish the desire for nuclear weapons.
2
Tracking the virus hunters who race to understand and extinguish new pathogens.
3
These kinds of fires are often impossible to extinguish using conventional tactics.
4
Thankfully, law enforcement arrived on the scene rapidly to extinguish the fire.
5
This enlightenment importuned him; he tried to extinguish it and could not.
6
It was the rash object of the crusaders to extinguish that life.
7
Airport staff managed to extinguish the fire and there were no injuries.
8
Meditate for about ten to fifteen minutes, and then extinguish the candle.
9
Harry puts his hand on the oil lamp, but doesn't extinguish it.
10
Once the boundary area is thinned, the flame is easier to extinguish.
11
All this time the brave firemen were working to extinguish the fire.
12
Allow not the world nor aught else to extinguish the tender flame.
13
The army was directed to use every effort to extinguish the flames.
14
The plane is used to teach firefighters how to extinguish aircraft blazes.
15
It had taken thirty years of incessant bloodshed to extinguish the Counter-Reformation.
16
For once her tears could not extinguish the flame of his anger.
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Extinguish across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common