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 extinguish [ik'stiŋgwiʃ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 熄灭, 使消亡, 压制, 使减色

[医] 消灭

[经] 偿清


  1. Smoking is forbidden. Please extinguish your cigarettes.
    吸烟是禁止的，请你把烟熄掉。
  2. Nothing could extinguish his faith in human nature.
    没有什么能使他丧失对人性的信心。
  3. We have to extinguish the memory of the defeat.
    我们必须抹去对那次失败的记忆。


extinguish


Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\ ([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sh), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Extinguished}([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sht); p
pr. & vb. n. {Extinguishing}.] [L. extinguere, exstinguere;
ex out + stinguere to quench. See {Distinguish}, {Finish}.]
1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to
cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to
extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense
or a right.

A light which the fierce winds have no power to
extinguish. --Prescott.

This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
--Blackstone.

2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.

Natural graces that extinguish art. --Shak
.

  1. A FIRE yesterday destroyed one of the most eye-catching pavilions of the Seville Universal Exposition, which opens on April 20, writes Tom Burns in Madrid. Firemen fought a four-hour battle to extinguish the blaze at the 'Time Machine'.
  2. We have to extinguish (the fire) because nobody needs a fire." The Soviets have not revealed how the dispute could be resolved, but with an increasingly restive Moslem population of 50 million in Central Asia, they can ill afford a misstep.
  3. At least 100 firefighters, some wearing oxygen tanks and gas masks, worked to extinguish the blaze.
  4. They had tried to extinguish several burning planks in a drum of gasoline but the blaze instead spread to a grassy area, the Bernama news agency said.
  5. And if Texaco eventually loses in court, final approval of the full Pennzoil judgment could "render Texaco insolvent" and "extinguish" the interest of shareholders, said a filing by creditors.
  6. A major problem in trying to extinguish the fires is that they are burning close to the ground, the Iraqis having destroyed the wellheads.
  7. Cooler temperatures and rain helped nearly extinguish wilderness fires in Montana and Alaska.
  8. The report said the explosion caused a fire that took firefighting planes nearly a week to extinguish.
  9. A truck driver who drove his burning rig for nine miles on Interstate 5 hoping the wind would extinguish the fire was cited for reckless driving after the fiery wreckage closed the highway for three hours.
  10. George Bush should extinguish it once and for all.
  11. But Dombrovske said he dispatched several staffers earlier that day to extinguish any remaining hot spots.
  12. An oil shale mine in northeastern Estonia has been ablaze for more than a month and authorities believe it will take another week to extinguish, a newspaper reported.
  13. Forty firefighters took more than an hour to extinguish the fire, Marek said.
  14. The blaze spread to the rest of the house when Dyke ran upstairs "in a ball of fire, possibly to get into the shower, maybe to extinguish the flames," Mulligan said.
  15. Balloonists have been unable to get higher because a shortage of oxygen causes the burners that heat the air inside the balloons to extinguish at the high altitude.
  16. He said the plumber set the torch on the floor and went to find something to extinguish the fire.
  17. A FIRE yesterday destroyed one of the most eye-catching pavilions of the Seville Universal Exposition, which opens on April 20, writes Tom Burns in Madrid. Firemen fought a four-hour battle to extinguish the blaze at the Discoveries Pavilion.
  18. 'Continuation of the current situation could slowly extinguish immigration.'
  19. A frost helped cool the ground and extinguish the blaze, said Mahlon Hammetter, a spokesman for the Texas Forest Service.
  20. It took until Sunday night to extinguish the fire, which burned at temperatures reaching 570 degrees, consuming everything combustible in the midships sections.
  21. Near Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., a 12,000-acre fire in the San Bernardino Mountains that has cost nearly $2 million to fight has been contained, but fire officials said they don't expect to extinguish it until Thursday.
  22. The explosion, heard several miles away, triggered a fire that damaged five other homes before authorities could extinguish the blaze.
  23. From 40 to 50 firefighters and five engines from five fire departments responded to the blaze, which took about 50 minutes to extinguish, he said.
  24. An Alias spokeswoman said repayment of the Silicon Graphics loan will extinguish all but 250,000 of the 1.5 million share-purchase warrants that Alias granted to the Mountain View, Calif., company in return for the previously reported loan.
  25. Passers-by helped extinguish the flames that engulfed Jamaitis, but he was in shock when brought to the hospital and died five hours later at 10:05 p.m. Thursday, Martynov reported.
  26. In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the forest fire mostly within the Hiawatha National Forest was contained by fire lines Sunday morning and crew were using hand tools to extinguish lingering embers.
  27. Firefighters had to cut through asbestos to extinguish the fire.
  28. The blazes have been too ferocious for crews to get in front of and extinguish.
  29. It is far more difficult to extinguish it.' Mr Yeltsin also announced that Russia was taking over the armed forces stationed in non-commonwealth republics - the Baltics and Georgia.
  30. We find it highly promising as it may gradually develop into a kind of all-European Security Council that would have effective means to extinguish the sparks of any possible conflict.
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