Extinguish vs Repeal - What's the difference?
extinguish | repeal |
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
To cancel, invalidate, annul.
To recall; to summon (a person) again.
* Shakespeare
To suppress; to repel.
* Milton
In lang=en terms the difference between extinguish and repeal
is that extinguish is to obscure or eclipse something while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.As verbs the difference between extinguish and repeal
is that extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench while repeal is to cancel, invalidate, annul.As a noun repeal is
an act or instance of repealing.extinguish
English
Verb
(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
Synonyms
* put out, quench, douse * See alsoExternal links
* *repeal
English
Verb
(en verb)- to repeal a law
- The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself, / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived.
- Whence Adam soon repealed / The doubts that in his heart arose.