Usually means: Puts out or suppresses fire.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word extinguishes:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinguishes: Merriam-Webster
  2. extinguishes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extinguishes: Vocabulary.com
  4. extinguishes: Wordnik
  5. extinguishes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extinguishes: Wiktionary
  7. extinguishes: Dictionary.com
  8. extinguishes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. extinguishes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinguishes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. extinguishes: Legal dictionary
  3. extinguishes: Financial dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinguishes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. extinguishes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See extinguish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (extinguish)

verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
verb:  (figurative) To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).
verb:  (figurative) To kill (someone).
verb:  (figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
verb:  (psychology) To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).
verb:  (figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
verb:  (figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) To die out.
▸ Also see extinguish


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