extinguish
- Verb. (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
- Verb. (transitive) to destroy or abolish something.
- Verb. (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something.
- Verb. (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
- Verb. (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction.
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