extinguish

1. Put an end to;
   Kill (synset 200479148)
   "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
   is a type of: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of - terminate, end, or take out
   subtypes:

   • stamp - destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot
   • put out, smother - deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
   same as: snuff out
2. Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights (synset 202767855)
   "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
   subtypes:

   • stub - extinguish by crushing
   • douse, put out - put out, as of a candle or a light
   • black out - obliterate or extinguish
   same as: blow out, quench, snuff out
3. Extinguish by crushing (synset 200479613)
   "stub out your cigar"
   is a type of: end, terminate - bring to an end or halt
   same as: crush out, press out, stub out
4. Terminate, end, or take out (synset 200472642)
   "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
   is a type of: destroy, destruct - do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of
   subtypes:

   • cancel out, wipe out - wipe out the effect of something
   • decouple - reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
   • decouple - eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive)
   • obliterate - do away with completely, without leaving a trace
   • knock out - eliminate
   • drown - get rid of as if by submerging
   • cut out - delete or remove
   • cut, prune, rationalise, rationalize - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
   • extinguish, snuff out - put an end to; kill
   • except, exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out - prevent from being included or considered or accepted
   same as: do away with, eliminate, get rid of
5. Kill in large numbers (synset 200471632)
   "the plague wiped out an entire population"
   is a type of: kill - cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
   same as: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out
   verb group: decimate - kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

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