Extinguish vs Suppress - What's the difference?
extinguish | suppress |
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 put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue
to restrain or repress an expression
(psychiatry) to exclude undesirable thoughts from one's mind
to prevent publication
to stop a flow or stream
(US, legal) to forbid the use of evidence at trial because it is improper or was improperly obtained
(electronics) to reduce unwanted frequencies in a signal
(obsolete) to hold in place, to keep low
As verbs the difference between extinguish and suppress
is that extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench while suppress is to put an end to, especially with force, to crush, do away with; to prohibit, subdue.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.
Synonyms
* put out, quench, douse * See alsoExternal links
* *suppress
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Verb
- ''Political dissent was brutally suppressed .
- ''I struggled to suppress my smile.
- He unconsciously suppressed his memories of abuse.
- The government suppressed the findings of their research about the true state of the economy.
- The rescue team managed to suppress the flow of oil by blasting the drilling hole.
- ''Hot blackcurrant juice mixed with honey may suppress cough.