extinguish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”).

verb

1. (transitive) To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.
2. (transitive) To destroy or abolish something.
   She extinguished all my hopes.
   They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers
   1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
3. (transitive) To obscure or eclipse something.
   The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
   A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison
4. (transitive, psychology) To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex.
   Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.
5. (transitive, literally) To hunt down (a species) to extinction.
6. (intransitive) To die out.
7. (transitive) To kill.