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extinguish | undefined |

As a verb extinguish

is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.

As an adjective undefined is

lacking a definition or value.

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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    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined