different between extinguish vs inextinguishable

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

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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.

English

Alternative forms

• unextinguishable (obsolete)

Etymology

in- +? extinguishable

Adjective

inextinguishable (comparative more inextinguishable, superlative most inextinguishable)

1. Incapable of being extinguished, not extinguishable.

Synonyms

• unquenchable

Antonyms

• extinguishable

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