- past participle of extinguish.
- past tense form of extinguish.
extinguished
Example Sentences
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The British driver's championship hopes were all but extinguished by an engine failure while he was running third at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia last Sunday.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Once the fire was extinguished, Lineage was tasked with removing the 89 million pounds of meat and food stored inside as fast as possible before it spoiled in the scorching summer heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
"The Saumos forest fire, which burned 42,000 hectares this summer, including 37,296 hectares destroyed, is now extinguished," state services wrote in a statement, adding no deaths had been reported.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
He ended that speech saying that Diana would “never be extinguished from our minds,” a line he now says he included as a retort to Charles’s call saying that she would be forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The lamps had been extinguished by the operatives as they left their looms, so at first her eyes could make out nothing but the hulking shapes of the machines.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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