Verb

(en verb)

(label) To vanish.

(label) To make vanish.

* {{quote-book, year=1973, author=Joseph Heller, chapter=38 Kid Sister

, title= Catch 22: A Dramatization , genre=Fiction, publisher=Delacorte Press, passage="Did they disappear' him?" / "I don’t know." / "What will you do if they decide to ' disappear you?"}}

(label) To go away; to become lost.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared .}}

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