Mar vs Extinguish - What's the difference?
mar | extinguish |
To spoil, to damage.
* Dryden
* Milton
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 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)- But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
- Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.
Etymology 2
See (m).Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----extinguish
English
Verb
(es)- She extinguished all my hopes.
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.
- The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.