Verb (used with object) : to extinguish a candle. ,to extinguish hope.    From Dictionary.com. 

The precise year in which the Western empire was extinguished, is not positively ascertained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Upon his death his titles extinguished; but his estates devolved on his nephew, the Lord John Fitz Maurice, in whose favour the title of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

Her serious expression extinguished the imbecile grin of which I was conscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chance A Tale in Two Parts] Reference

As Lula already said, the Kyoto Protocol can not be declared dead or extinguished, which is what the US pretends to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fausta's Blog] Reference

Let me thank you, Mrs. Clinton, for introducing me not as an "extinguished" scientist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millennium Evening Transcript Informatics Meets Genomics] Reference

Jamf would have, in Pavlov-ian terms, "extinguished" the hardon reflex he'd built up, before he let the baby go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gravity's Rainbow]

So there were little crutches and little habits that Knox brought to the job were kind of extinguished one by one by the justice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR�s Washington] Reference

It's not something that is simply pathological and should be "extinguished"; stims have a useful function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports from a Resident Alien] Reference

"extinguished," and that students would be allowed to reenter their dorms at that time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Columbia Spectator - News, sports, and entertainment coverage for the Morningside Heights community in New York City.] Reference

"extinguished," and the capital established at Bangkok, the houses were at first built on the banks of the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok] Reference

In this way, they have been extinguished a second time.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Hamptons] Reference

The fire has been extinguished and no one was injured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire at the Phillips Collection] Reference

The Khmer Rouge was like a fire that was not extinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice, Not Vengeance] Reference

The term "late bloomer" has been extinguished from our lexicon.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Vacation Almost Killed Me'] Reference

Individuality is not extinguished but people are fitted to functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Meritocracy] Reference

If time is an illusion, can consciousness ever truly be extinguished?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why You're Alive and Can Never Die: The Larger Scientific Picture] Reference

It would be a brutal betrayal to allow these rights to be extinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Missing Word in Our Afghanistan Strategy] Reference

In the past 24 hours, firefighters have extinguished hundreds of fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pictures of the Day: Aug. 4] Reference

Her evident joy of seeing me was quickly extinguished by the look of my face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother] Reference

You betrayed charities whose good works you have extinguished in an afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter To Madoff] Reference

Forest fires reached Moscow's western fringe but were extinguished late Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildfires Ravage Russia] Reference

As the novelist Nancy Lemann puts it, "A spark so divine is not easily extinguished.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Toward a New New Orleans] Reference

Who cannot empathize with the desire to see the life of a brutal murderer extinguished?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: America's Outspoken Olympian] Reference

How had a man with such spiritual capacity become, as Sereny says, "morally extinguished"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside A Third Reich Insider] Reference

Crews again extinguished the blazes without incident, and no one was injured, Piringer said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cars, scooters torched on 16th St. NW] Reference

Days after the flames were extinguished, it is still not entirely clear how the fire started.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘It Looked Like Hell Was Burning’] Reference

Even if the fire has been extinguished, the hot charcoal can continue to emit carbon monoxide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grill safety: Don't let your summer go up in smoke] Reference

The poem ends to silence, followed by a small, brave spatter of handclaps, quickly extinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Jaws of Kronos Act 1, scene v] Reference

Forest fires reached Moscow's western fringe on Thursday, but were extinguished toward nightfall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia Forest Fires Rage, 25 Dead (PHOTOS)] Reference

The glimmer of democracy that existed during the messy Yeltsin years was being entirely extinguished.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dangerous Game] Reference

And so the campaign sparked by a wildfire draft movement was extinguished just as quickly by Kerry's momentum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battle Lost] Reference

One third of the 600-odd oilfield fires have been extinguished, but it may take another two years to complete the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Year Later] Reference

Of the 65 major fires burning as of last weekend, roughly a dozen are unlikely to be extinguished before October or November.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flaming Fury] Reference

Olympic team and a decade sponsoring NBC's coverage, GM is exiting the games after the flame is extinguished in Beijing next summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toyota’s Olympic Turn] Reference

Some days after the worst was over, I took a walk and was amazed that I could still feel the heat from fires extinguished hours earlier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why I Write] Reference