Definizione monolingua

extinguish

extinguish (third-person singular simple present extinguishes, present participle extinguishing, simple past and past participle extinguished)

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.

   • 1668 December 19??, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

     The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.

3. (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something

   The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.

4. (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
5. (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction

Definizione dizionario extinguish

spegnere

spengere

	estinguere
	Far cessare di esistere.
	Treat something in such a way that it does not exist anymore.

cancellare

Altri significati:

(transitive) to obscure or eclipse something

to obscure or eclipse something

To actively finish or terminate the existance or burning of a fire or flame.

( '''psychology''' ) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex

(transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench

(transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex

(transitive) to destroy or abolish something

(transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction

(to) put out

To actively finish or terminate the existance or burning of a fire or flame by blowing a stream of air against it.

( '''literally''' ) to hunt down (a species) to extinction

to destroy or abolish something