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Extinguishing   /ɪkstˈɪŋgwɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Extinguish  v. t.  (past & past part. extinguished; pres. part. extinguishing)  
1.
To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right. "A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish." "This extinguishes my right to the reversion."
2.
To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. "Natural graces that extinguish art.".





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"Extinguishing" Quotes from Famous Books



... guide ye ever had in a' your life?" said Jenny, as she closed the conversation by assuming her place beside her husband and extinguishing the candle. ...
— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... was to be performed the next morning about daybreak. The same number of lights might therefore be seen streaming in different ways over the parish; the married men holding the torches, and leading their wives; bachelors escorting their sweethearts, and not unfrequently extinguishing their flambeaux, that the dependence of the females upon their care and protection might more lovingly call ...
— The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh • William Carleton
... the ironies of history that the passion for extinguishing immorality by law and administration should have arisen in what used to be called Christendom. For Christianity is precisely the most brilliant proof the world has ever seen of the truth that immorality cannot so be suppressed. From the standpoint of classic Rome Christianity ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... house, the travelers' room was all in darkness, and on opening the opposite door into the sitting-room we found the female part of the family extinguishing the fire for the night. Mrs. Pugwash had a broom in her hand, and was in the act (the last act of female housewifery) of sweeping the hearth. The strong flickering light of the fire, as it fell upon her tall, fine figure and beautiful ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... active poison. Says Dr. Turner, in his celebrated work on chemistry, "An animal can not live in air which is unable to support combustion." Says the same author again, "An animal can not live in air which contains sufficient carbonic acid for extinguishing a candle." It will presently be seen why these ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew


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