Usually means: Cease to burn or shine.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinguish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. extinguish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extinguish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extinguish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extinguish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extinguish, extinguish: Wordnik
  7. extinguish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extinguish: Wiktionary
  9. extinguish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extinguish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extinguish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extinguish: Dictionary.com
  13. extinguish: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extinguish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extinguish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extinguish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extinguish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extinguish: Rhymezone
  19. extinguish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extinguish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. extinguish: Free Dictionary
  22. extinguish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. extinguish: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Extinguish: bizterms.net
  4. Extinguish: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. extinguish: Legal dictionary
  6. Extinguish: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extinguish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. extinguish: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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