extinguish
- (verb): To put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
- (verb): To destroy or abolish something
- (verb): To obscure or eclipse something
- (verb): To bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
- (verb): To hunt down (a species) to extinction
- (verb): To die out.
- She extinguished all my hopes.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
- Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.