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Word: extinguish (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Verb:

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

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