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Extinguish vs Allay - What's the difference?

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Extinguish is a related term of allay.


In lang=en terms the difference between extinguish and allay

is that extinguish is to obscure or eclipse something while allay is to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.

As verbs the difference between extinguish and allay

is that extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench while allay is to make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.

As a noun allay is

alleviation; abatement; check.

extinguish

English

Verb

(es)
  • to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
  • to destroy or abolish something
    • She extinguished all my hopes.
  • * 1668 December 19, , “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.
  • to obscure or eclipse something
    • The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
  • (psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
  • (literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction

    • Synonyms

    * put out, quench, douse * See also

    Related terms

    * extinct * extinction * extinguisher * fire extinguisher

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    allay

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm.
    • to allay popular excitement
    to allay the tumult of the passions
  • To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate.
    • to allay the severity of affliction or the bitterness of adversity
  • (obsolete) To subside, abate, become peaceful.
  • * 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IV:
    • And the wynde alayed , and there folowed a greate calme: and he sayde unto them: why are ye fearfull?
  • * Shakespeare
    • When the rage allays .
  • (archaic) To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate.
    • (Fuller)

    Quotations

    He had to pretend to be drunk in order to allay the suspicions which might have been aroused by his appearance at the gate.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet

    Synonyms

    * alleviate; check; repress; assuage; appease; abate; subdue; destroy; compose; soothe; calm; quiet

    Noun

  • alleviation; abatement; check

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