Extinguish

/ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ/ verb

To make a fire, light, or flame stop burning or shining. It can also mean to end or destroy something such as a hope, feeling, or idea.

From Latin *extinguere* ‘to quench, put out, wipe out’, from *ex-* (‘out’) and *stinguere* (‘to quench’). It originally referred to putting out fires.

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