extinguish
Example Sentences
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Projections last year from the New York Fed showed the Fed could have operating profits this year, and that it could extinguish the deferred asset by the end of the decade.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 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 household matriarch, Sylvia, 64, said it took them five hours of dousing with buckets to extinguish the flames.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026
It took nearly two days to extinguish visible flames on board in a huge firefighting operation.
From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026
A scarred ruin belching smoke, the only fireman dispatched to extinguish it slouched in defeat, blistered and weary, his hose run dry.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
