extinguish

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
2. fiil To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).

   “A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison”

3. fiil To kill (someone).
4. fiil To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.

   “She extinguished all my hopes.”

5. fiil To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).

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

6. fiil To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
7. fiil To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).

   “1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575”

8. fiil To die out.