Толковый словарь английского языка - extinguish
Extinguish
extinguish
transitive verb see: stick Date: circa 1540 1. a. to bring to an end ; make an end of , to reduce to silence or ineffectiveness, to cause to cease burning ; quench , to cause extinction of (a conditioned response), to dim the brightness of ; eclipse , 2. to cause to be void ; nullify , to get rid of usually by payment , ~able adjective ~er noun ~ment noun
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v.tr. 1 cause (a flame, light, etc.) to die out; put out. 2 make extinct; annihilate, destroy (a programme to extinguish disease). 3 put an end to; terminate; obscure utterly (a feeling, quality, etc.). 4 a abolish; wipe out (a debt). b Law render void. 5 colloq. reduce to silence (the argument extinguished the opposition). Derivatives extinguishable adj. extinguishment n. Etymology: irreg. f. L extinguere (as EXTINCT): cf. distinguish ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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