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mar | extinguish |

As a noun mar

is sea.

As a verb extinguish is

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

mar

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

Verb

(marr)
  • To spoil, to damage.
  • * Dryden
  • But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
  • * Milton
  • Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.

    Etymology 2

    See (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small lake.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----

    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