extinguished

Meaning of extinguished

verb, past tense
  1. cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
    firemen were soaking everything to extinguish the blaze

mid 16th century: from Latin exstinguere, from ex- ‘out’ + stinguere ‘quench’. Compare with distinguish.

Information about extinguished

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of extinguished

ex-tin-guished

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
  • extinguished is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

extinguished synonyms

Meaning extinguish (a fire or light):

douse, dout

Meaning satisfy (one's thirst) by drinking:

quench

Meaning extinguish (a fire) by covering it:

smother

extinguished antonyms

Meaning provide with light or lighting; illuminate:

light

Words that rhyme with extinguished

shed, abashed, alewashed, ashed, backlashed, backwashed, bashed, bedashed, besplashed, brainwashed, brashed, cashed, clashed, colourwashed, crashed, dashed, deashed, earbashed, encashed, fashed, flashed, gashed, gatecrashed, gnashed, greenwashed, hashed, interdashed, kourbashed, kurbashed, lashed, leashed, mashed, outflashed, pashed, pebbledashed, plashed, potashed, prewashed, quashed, rainwashed, rashed, rehashed, rewashed, sashed, shashed, siwashed, slashed, smashed, snashed, spatterdashed

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