Extinguishing Synonyms and Antonyms

Kill; quash
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. exterminating
  2. uprooting
  3. rooting
  4. removing
  5. obliterating
  6. liquidating
  7. killing
  8. annihilating
  9. extirpating
  10. erasing
  11. eradicating
  12. clearing
  13. abolishing
Antonyms:
  1. bearing
  2. creating
To cause to stop burning or giving light
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. quenching
  2. dousing
The act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. extinction
  2. quenching

Words Related to Extinguishing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Extinguishing Sentence Examples

  • The chamber's drapes were drawn, extinguishing all but enough light to see.

  • The difficulty of extinguishing an underground fire in this way is, however, very great, as on account of the poisonous products of combustion it is impossible to attack it except in the rear, and even there the men are always in great danger from the reversal of the FIG.

  • But the emperor himself lived long enough to see that his romantic policy of restoration was to leave no results; and after his early death all hope of extinguishing Christianity was abandoned.

  • Spanish dancers were spotted, and the obligatory extinguishing of torches revealed copious luminescence.

  • The three powers, Russia, Austria and Prussia, made this a pretext for extinguishing this independent state; and as the outcome of a conference at Vienna (November 1846) the three courts, contrary to the assurance previously given, and in opposition to the expressed views of the British and French governments, decided to extinguish the state of Cracow and to incorporate it with the dominions of Austria.

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