Verb

(en verb)

To turn over, capsize or upset (something)

To overthrow or destroy something

(legal) To reverse a decision; to overrule or rescind

To diminish the significance of a previous defeat by winning; to comeback from.

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, year=2011 , date=April 10 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure }}

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