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Extinguished vs Extinguishes - What's the difference?

extinguished | extinguishes |

As verbs the difference between extinguished and extinguishes

is that extinguished is (extinguish) while extinguishes is (extinguish).

As an adjective extinguished

is referring to something that has been eliminated.

extinguished

English

Verb

(head)
  • (extinguish)
  • The cowboys extinguished the fire.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • referring to something that has been eliminated
  • The cowboys buried their trash next to the extinguished fire.

    extinguishes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (extinguish)

  • 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