extinguish
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People living near the refinery were forced to evacuate Tuesday, while more than 100 emergency personnel worked to extinguish the blaze, according to local officials.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
The Assynt Foundation, which manages the land, and workers from neighbouring estates used leafblowers to help extinguish the flames.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
It would extinguish a radical experiment with an ugly shadow stretching from Lebanon to Indonesia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The oil wells set ablaze in Kuwait in the 1990s during the first Gulf War took months to extinguish and released an estimated 130 to 400 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
He disconnected his air hose to extinguish the roar of air so that he could hear through the receiver, and he punched Colonel C. J. Peter’s phone number.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing extinguish
A Wrinkle in Time
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The Great Fire
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