Endangered vs Extinguish - What's the difference?
endangered | extinguish |
in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct)
* 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Betrothed
(endanger)
to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
to destroy or abolish something
* 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
to obscure or eclipse something
(psychology) to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
(literally) to hunt down (a species) to extinction
As verbs the difference between endangered and extinguish
is that endangered is (endanger) while extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.As an adjective endangered
is in danger, at risk, said of something where there is a strong possibility something bad will happen to it (for example, a species in danger of going extinct).endangered
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I have but done my devoir, lady, as a good knight, in defence of an endangered maiden...
Derived terms
* endangered speciesVerb
(head)extinguish
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Verb
(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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- 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.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
