extinguish

Verb

Synonyms: snuff out blow out quench stub out crush out press out eliminate get rid of do away with annihilate eradicate wipe out

WordNet 3.0

Verb (5)

put an end to; kill“The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children”Synonyms: 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”Synonyms: snuff out blow out quench
extinguish by crushing“stub out your cigar”Synonyms: stub out crush out press out
terminate, end, or take out“Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”“Socialism extinguished these archaic customs”“eliminate my debts”Synonyms: eliminate get rid of do away with
kill in large numbers“the plague wiped out an entire population”Synonyms: eliminate annihilate eradicate wipe out decimate carry off

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\ ([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extinguished([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sht); p pr. & vb. n. Extinguishing.] [L. extinguere, exstinguere; ex out + stinguere to quench. See Distinguish, Finish.]

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. [1913 Webster]

A light which the fierce winds have no power to extinguish.— Prescott.[1913 Webster]

This extinguishes my right to the reversion.— Blackstone.[1913 Webster]

2.To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor. [1913 Webster]

Natural graces that extinguish art.— Shak .[1913 Webster]