Raze vs Extinguish - What's the difference?
raze | extinguish | Related terms |
To demolish; to level to the ground.
To scrape as if with a razor.
(rhizome of ginger).
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
Raze is a related term of extinguish.
In lang=en terms the difference between raze and extinguish
is that raze is to scrape as if with a razor while extinguish is to obscure or eclipse something.As verbs the difference between raze and extinguish
is that raze is to demolish; to level to the ground while extinguish is to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench.As a noun raze
is (rhizome of ginger).raze
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) raserVerb
(raz)- The word ‘laconic’ derives from Lakon (“person from Lakonia”) the district around Sparta in southern Greece in ancient times, whose inhabitants were famous for their brevity of speech. When threatened them with, “If I enter Laconia, I will raze Sparta,” the Spartans’ reply was, “If.”
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(head)Anagrams
* ----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.