Extinguished vs Extinguishes - What's the difference?
extinguished | extinguishes |
(extinguish)
referring to something that has been eliminated
(extinguish)
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 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)- The cowboys extinguished the fire.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The cowboys buried their trash next to the extinguished fire.
extinguishes
English
Verb
(head)extinguish
English
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.