Textual thesaurus for "extinguish"

(verb) carry off, wipe out, eliminate, eradicate, decimate, annihilate

kill in large numbers

the plague wiped out an entire population

(verb) do away with, eliminate, get rid of

terminate, end, or take out

Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics; Socialism extinguished these archaic customs; eliminate my debts

(verb) snuff out

put an end to; kill

The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children

(verb) crush out, press out, stub out

extinguish by crushing

stub out your cigar

(verb) quench, blow out, snuff out

put out, as of fires, flames, or lights

Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained; quench the flames; snuff out the candles