Extinguishing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXTINGUISHING 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
NOUN:
• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
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 EXTINGUISHING

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How to use EXTINGUISHING in a sentence

• At the same time, they fight most furiously, to deter the Romans, by the engagement and danger, from extinguishing the flames.
• Surely they would act more to their own interest if they would concur in extinguishing the trade, than by standing up for its continuance.
• Captain Spade was the last to quit the house after extinguishing the lamp and closing the door behind him.
• Rose, appeared on the platform amid considerable uproar, followed by extinguishing the gas and singing songs.
• Nautica, suddenly remembering one of the best things for extinguishing burning gasoline, was making everything fly as she frantically sought to reach a stowed-away bag of flour.
• While extinguishing a fire which had caught in a tall hemlock, by night, he was surprised by a company of Indians, by whom he was easily overpowered.
• Meantime Curtis is taking active measures for totally extinguishing the fire.
• It is not the extinguishing of me, or of many more like me, that will extinguish the work of reformation in Scotland.
• When the bombs began to come, one of the Trasteverini, those noble images of the old Roman race, redeemed her claim to that descent by seizing a bomb and extinguishing the match.
• This fire-bill should, as far as possible, conform to the arrangement for extinguishing fire during exercise at General Quarters.
• Are the arrangements and apparatus for extinguishing fire efficient? If not, state deficiencies and their causes.
• His eyes closed, and he fell off insensibly to rest without having so much as thought of extinguishing the candle.
• The firemen of Havre who came to Paris to aid in extinguishing the recent conflagrations have returned home to-day.
• An unlucky circumstance, which took place on the 1st January of 1812, proved the means of nearly extinguishing the custom.
• The bill extinguishing small notes in England was followed by two other bills affecting the currency.
• Where was his boy at that moment? The priest turned, re-entered the church, and locking the door, passed up the aisle extinguishing the lights as he went along.
• When she got through extinguishing, the little Group that remained looked like the Remnant of the Old Guard at Waterloo.
• Deprived of water, Baldwin, who was brave enough, made shift with wine, using it both for cookery and extinguishing the fires.
• Then, extinguishing the lantern as soon as they could see their way without it, they reached the innermost cave before any of the negroes returned.
• He took a small brown- paper parcel from behind the sofa and, extinguishing the lamp, put on his cap and opened the front door.
• After a blank interval of thirty minutes a band had begun to play at an incredible distance in front of him, extinguishing the noises of traffic in the street.
• Every editor is wearied with his never-ending task of extinguishing lights which glow brightly with ambition but have no gleam of the divine fire.
• On the soft ground our feet are noiseless and, extinguishing the lanterns, we sit on a log to listen to the night sounds.
• Surely they would act more to their own interest, if they would concur in extinguishing the trade, than by standing up for its continuance.
• Man, agency of in extinguishing and spreading the species, 57.
• Then Hoonamunta sped away northward to Ayodhya, extinguishing his tail in the sea as he went.
• He now bolted the front-door and went upstairs extinguishing the lights after him.
• When the crew abandoned the hope of extinguishing the flames, they had closed all the hatches, to retard the crisis as much as possible.
• Extinguishing our lights, therefore, we resigned ourselves to the influences of darkness and silence.
• At last he got undressed, and extinguishing the light, he crawled into bed.
• By extinguishing all carnal desires, it leaves neither hunger nor thirst after worldly things.

Similar words containing TINGUISH without suffix ing and without prefix ex

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