Extinguished

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
     1. p. p. of {destroy}. [Narrower terms: {annihilated,
        exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate,
        desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted};
        {blighted, spoilt}; {blotted out, obliterate,
        obliterated}; {demolished, dismantled, razed}; {done


        for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,
        finished(predicate)}; {extinguished}; {ruined, wiped
        out(predicate), impoverished}; {totaled, wrecked};
        {war-torn, war-worn}; {despoiled, pillaged, raped,
        ravaged, sacked}] Also See: {damaged}. Antonym:
        {preserved}
        [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. destroyed physically or morally.
  
     Syn: ruined.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  extinguished \extinguished\ adj.
     1. (Psychol.) caused to die out because of the absence or
        withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.
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     2. no longer burning; -- of a fire.
  
     Syn: extinct, out(predicate), quenched.
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     3. no longer existing; -- of species.
  
     Syn: dead.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\ ([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sh), v. t.
     [imp. & p. p. {Extinguished}([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sht); p
     pr. & vb. n. {Extinguishing}.] [L. extinguere, exstinguere;
     ex out + stinguere to quench. See {Distinguish}, {Finish}.]
     1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to
        cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to
        extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense
        or a right.
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              A light which the fierce winds have no power to
              extinguish.                           --Prescott.
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              This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
                                                    --Blackstone.
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     2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
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              Natural graces that extinguish art.   --Shak
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  extinguished
       adj : of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the
             absence or withdrawal of reinforcement