Usage examples (34)

• Verb (used with object) : to extinguish a candle. ,to extinguish hope
• On April 19 an event took place that almost succeeded in extinguishing the rebellion.
• I am going to show you where railways have spent immense sums of money in extinguishing these grade crossings, in many cases most willingly.
• But for the exertions of the police in extinguishing the flames, made while the mob were pelting them with missiles, all the factory hands would have perished.