extinguishing
Snuffing a flame
Extinguishing is the act of putting out a fire or light: firefighters extinguishing the blaze, extinguishing the candles before bed.
The word extends to ending or eliminating anything: extinguishing a debt, extinguishing hope, extinguishing a species.
What's extinguished no longer burns, glows, or exists.
Wet completely, often flames
- smotherDeprive of air
- hoseFlexible fluid conduit
- foamBubble-filled substance
- sprinklerWater-dispersing lawn fixture
hydrant · water · firebreak · blanket · retardant · quench · suppress · containment
A full stopping
- terminationAct of ending something
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
suppression · quashing · annihilation · obliteration · snuffing · stamping out · wiping out · destruction
douse
Wet completely, often flames
sprinkler · hydrant · water · firebreak · blanket · retardant · quench · suppress · containment · firefighter
cessation
A full stopping
- terminationAct of ending something
- eliminationAct of removing entirely
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
abolition · suppression · quashing · annihilation · obliteration · snuffing · stamping out · wiping out · destruction · removal
- eliminatingeliminating, eradicating, wiping out, exterminating, abolishing
- Shabbat prohibitionsplowing, sowing, reaping, threshing, winnowing
- candlescandle, wick, tealight, tealights, tea light
- ceremonieswedding ceremony, wedding, weddings, graduation, graduations
- hosing downrinsing, spraying, drenching, dousing, flushing
- dissolutionbreakup, breakdown, liquidation, wind down, disintegration
extinguishingcreating
Making something new
establishing · generating · initiating · preserving · sustaining
extinguishingilluminating
Making visible or understandable
lighting · brightening · turning on · switching on · lighting up
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