Extinguishes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTINGUISHES in dictionary:

VERB:
• EXTINGUISH, to bring to an end
• put an end to; destroy
• subdue or reduce (someone) to silence
• cancel (a debt) by full payment
• render (a right or obligation) void
• cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine
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 EXTINGUISHES

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How to use EXTINGUISHES in a sentence

• Islam, more rapidly and completely than any other creed, extinguishes racial sympathies and groups its adherents anew.
• All strength and will dies in its fiery breath, it extinguishes all else, nothing remains but that holy, sacred fire which illumines and blesses, even while it consumes.
• I have no doubt that she loved you, but there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves, and I think that she must have been one.
• The same law of eternal procession ranges all that we call the virtues, and extinguishes each in the light of a better.
• In spite of the entreaties of Brangaene, she extinguishes the torch which is to be the signal to Tristan, and soon she is in his arms.
• Half an hour after the door has been closed the matron extinguishes the light, without entering the room.
• Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
• Only forty seconds more! Barbican rapidly extinguishes the gas and lies down beside his companions.
• The statistics of infant mortality unfortunately show that it is not a process that extinguishes the unfit only.
• It extinguishes all Murmur, Repining, and Ingratitude towards that Being who has allotted him his Part to act in this World.
• The polar cyclone differs from the tropical cyclone, inasmuch as the one sets fire to every light, and the other extinguishes them all.
• In the church of Saint Sulpice Delacroix extinguishes all the feeble art that surrounds him, but his sense of Catholic art is null.
• It gradually extinguishes the spirit of magnanimous disinterestedness, and replaces it by that of hard justice.
• It extinguishes secret corruption almost to the possibility of its existence.
• The musicians were still playing, but now the silence reached them too, and even as water extinguishes scattered embers, so were their merry tunes extinguished in the silence.
• From her corpse sprang up the pairs of gods of clay, of metal, and other kami that possessed the potency of calming or subduing fire, for clay resists and water extinguishes.
• Difficulty, which quickens the ardor of industry, always damps, and generally extinguishes, the false zeal of caprice and versatility.

Similar words containing TINGUISHE without suffix s and without prefix ex

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