extinguishment 的定义
- 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.
extinguishment 近义词
annihilation
abolition
更多extinguishment例句
- 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.