different between devastate vs extinguish

English

Etymology

From Latin d?vast?tus, perfect passive participle of d?vast?, from d?- (augmentative prefix) + vast? (“I destroy, I lay waste to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?v?ste?t/

Verb

devastate (third-person singular simple present devastates, present participle devastating, simple past and past participle devastated)

1. To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
2. To destroy a whole collection of related ideas, beliefs, and strongly held opinions.
3. To break beyond recovery or repair so that the only options are abandonment or the clearing away of useless remains (if any) and starting over.
4. To greatly demoralize, to cause to suffer intense grief or dismay

Synonyms

• (to lay waste) decimate (sometimes proscribed); destroy; raze (to structures); ruin

Derived terms

• devastated (adjective)

Related terms

• devastation
• devastavit

Translations

Further reading

• devastate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• devastate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• devastate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Ido

Verb

devastate

1. adverbial present passive participle of devastar

Italian

Verb

devastate

1. inflection of devastare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
2. feminine plural of devastato

Anagrams

• destavate, detestava

Latin

Verb

d?v?st?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?v?st?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?st??.?w??/

Verb

extinguish (third-person singular simple present extinguishes, present participle extinguishing, simple past and past participle extinguished)

1. (transitive) to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
2. (transitive) to destroy or abolish something

   She extinguished all my hopes.

   They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers

   • 1668 December 19, James Dalrymple, “Mr. Alexander Seaton contra Menzies” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575

     The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.

3. (transitive) to obscure or eclipse something

   The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.

   A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison

4. (transitive, psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex

   Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.

5. (transitive, literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
6. (intransitive) To die out.

Synonyms

• put out, quench, douse
• See also Thesaurus:destroy

Related terms

• distinguish
• extinct
• extinction
• extinguisher
• fire extinguisher

Translations

Further reading

• extinguish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• extinguish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.