extinguish

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct.

1. To end (something).
2. To end (something).

   “A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison”

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

3. To end (something).
4. To end (something).

   “She extinguished all my hopes.”

   “They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers”

5. To end (something).

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

6. To end (something).
7. To end (something).

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

   “If the amnesty becomes law as expected this month or in June, it promises to extinguish the charges Puigdemont faces of disobedience and misuse of public funds.”

8. To die out.