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s | extinguish |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb extinguish is

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

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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