extinguish
US: /ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ/
UK: /ɛkstˈɪŋɡwɪʃ/
UK: /ɛkstˈɪŋɡwɪʃ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
extinguish /iks'tiɳgwiʃ/
- ngoại động từ
- dập tắt, làm tiêu tan, làm tắt
- làm lu mờ, át
- her beauty extinguished that of all others: cẻ đẹp của cô làm lu mờ tất cả những cô khác
- làm cứng họng (đối phương)
- thanh toán (nợ nần)
- tiêu diệt, phá huỷ
- (pháp lý) huỷ bỏ
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb [VN]
1 to make a fire stop burning or a light stop shining
Synonym: PUT OUT
Firefighters tried to extinguish the flames. + (formal) All lights had been extinguished.
2 to destroy sth: News of the bombing extinguished all hope of peace.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 put or snuff or blow out, quench; turn off or out:
We are landing shortly, so please extinguish all smoking materials. Extinguish the lights before leaving.
2 kill (off), annihilate, destroy, obliterate, abolish, exterminate, eliminate, do away with, nullify, eradicate, remove, banish, wipe or blot out:
The potion contained a drug that extinguished all memory of unhappiness.
3 obscure, eclipse, dim, outdo, put in the shade, overshadow, adumbrate, Colloq show up:
His personality is completely extinguished by the dazzle of his wife.
Concise English dictionary
extinguishes|extinguished|extinguishingɪk'stɪŋgwɪʃ
verb
+put an end to; kill
+put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
+extinguish by crushing
+kill in large numbers
