extinguish

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vt. 熄灭, 使消亡, 压制, 使减色 [医] 消灭

发音

US /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/

词形变化

extinguished extinguishes 三单 extinguishes extinguishest extinguisheth extinguishing extinguisht extinguishing 现在分词 extinguished 过去式 extinguished 过去分词

教材释义与例句

动词

熄灭；压制；偿清

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To eclipse or obscure (someone or something).

    比喻 及物

    A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison

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

  2. 2.

    To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.

    熄灭

    扑灭

    及物
  3. 3.

    To kill (someone).

    比喻 及物
  4. 4.

    To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.

    比喻 及物

    She extinguished all my hopes.

    They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers

  5. 5.

    To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.

    To bring about the extinction of (a conditioned reflex).

    比喻 及物 心理学

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

  6. 6.

    To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.

    比喻 及物
  7. 7.

    To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).

    比喻 及物 法律
  8. 8.

    To die out.

    不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

eliminate annihilate eradicate quench stub decimate blow out do away with get rid of wipe out

反义词 1

ignite

上位词 10

stop kill break quit destroy eliminate cease quench destruct discontinue

下位词 10

cut except drown stamp exclude prune smother stub douse take out

近义相关 1

decimate

相关短语

embrace, extend and extinguish

词源

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”). Doublet of extinct.

来源：wiktionary