Extinguish is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTINGUISH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to bring to an end
• cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine
• put an end to; destroy
• subdue or reduce (someone) to silence
• cancel (a debt) by full payment
• render (a right or obligation) void
• To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
• To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
• put an end to; kill
• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
• extinguish by crushing
• terminate, end, or take out
• kill in large numbers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bring to an en; make an end of; to reduce to silence or ineffectiveness; to cause to cease burning; quench; to cause extinction of (a conditioned response); to dim the brightness; eclipse

Words related to EXTINGUISH

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Words that contain EXTINGUISH

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How to use EXTINGUISH in a sentence

• No thought but rage and never ceasing strife Till death extinguish rage and thought and life.
• This single Consideration would be sufficient to extinguish the Bitterness of Hatred, the Thirst of Avarice, and the Cruelty of Ambition.
• He had been arguing with her his right to extinguish himself if he chose.
• The dogs within must either open it to extinguish the fire, or it must burn.
• This rebellion seems to be taking more time to extinguish than the people and the national authorities supposed it would require.
• Nearly all the rest who were present ran to the fire, some to extinguish it, others to steal and pillage in the midst of the consternation.
• The gospel does not abolish the sexes, forbid a division of labor, or extinguish patriotism.
• Where sin abounded to consume the soul as with unquenchable fire and a gnawing worm, grace hath much more abounded to extinguish the flame and heal the wound.
• Bonds, and tortures, and death can not extinguish its influence.
• As soon as the danger would permit, the mayor tried to extinguish the flames, while his wife and little daughter were praying earnestly for themselves and for their neighbors.
• At last Civilis saw their mistake, and gave orders to extinguish the fires and plunge the whole scene into a confusion of darkness and the din of arms.
• Only the railroad shows its signal lights, and these are put out at the first alarm, while all moving trains come to a standstill and extinguish what lights they carry.
• Otherwise humanity would proceed to extinguish itself forthwith.
• But he soon perceived the danger, and then they both set to work to extinguish the flames.
• I had a thirst after worldly interest and honors, and I could not extinguish it at once.
• The cavaliers or Jacobites had always foreseen that this union would extinguish all their hopes of a revolution in favour of the pretender.
• Alice Vavasor, who was after all only her cousin, she loved with an exceeding love, and yet Alice had done very much to extinguish such love.
• The fugitives joined their army on the other side of the Elbe, and its guns opened upon the burning bridge, to prevent the Prussians from trying to extinguish the flames.
• Masonry has ever the most vivid remembrance of the terrible and artificial torments that were used to put down new forms of religion or extinguish the old.
• And now the shadow had appeared and faded he could not extinguish his longing for the truth of its substance.
• Its purpose is to extinguish those fires effectually, before new incidents arise to fan them into flame.
• The North will be compelled to extinguish slavery in order to prevent England from recognizing the South.
• Therefore you can only stand and watch, hoping that he will notice the flames before they are beyond control, and extinguish them.
• When a spirit is once raised, even the most disastrous reverses are not able to extinguish it.
• Arrows tipped with burning tow and balls of blazing pitch rained upon the roof, and the utmost exertions of the garrison were needed to extinguish the fires.
• But that religious with his arguments and good management hindered it, and inspired them all to extinguish the fire.
• Economic prosperity, however widely diffused, will not extinguish crime.
• Every effort was made to extinguish the flames in that part of the ship, but they increased so rapidly, it soon became impossible for any one to remain below.
• The cottage was a mass of streaming, crackling flames, and there was no water to extinguish these, as he realized with sudden fear.

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