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extinguishment

/ik-sting-gwish/US // ɪkˈstɪŋ gwɪʃ //UK // (ɪkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃ) //

熄灭,消灭,灭亡,灭绝

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put out; put out the flame of: to extinguish a candle.
    • : to put an end to or bring to an end; wipe out of existence; annihilate: to extinguish hope.
    • : to obscure or eclipse, as by superior brilliance.
    • : Law. to discharge, as by payment.

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Examples

  • If the American dream of department stores wasn’t fully extinguished before 2020, the year of the pandemic will make sure it is.

  • To extinguish the heater, blow out the flame, wait for the rim of the can to cool, and cover with the plastic lid to keep remaining fuel from evaporating.

  • I use mine to make sure campfires are thoroughly extinguished and to dig latrine pits on virtually every camping trip I take.

  • There’s the tale of a river of burning whiskey in Dublin being extinguished by horse manure, and a ghost village above the Arctic Circle, accessible only by sea or snowmobile, where the world’s northernmost basketball court stands empty of play.

  • Municipal bots surge into hotspots—disinfecting, repairing flood barriers, extinguishing fires, or whatever the crisis calls for.

  • The war, liberation of slaves, the sudden extinguishment of millions of property, bankrupted the South.

  • The sum left, after paying the interest of it for the year, is annually applicable to the extinguishment of the principal.

  • Every time science has taken one of your mediums in hand he or she has suffered extinguishment.

  • One could not but pity the extinguishment of her poor little great affairs.

  • A dozen different stories from a dozen different people were told about the extinguishment of the electric lights.