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.
Extinguishable
(Ex*tin"guish*a*ble) a. Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.
Extinguisher
(Ex*tin"guish*er) n. One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other
device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.
Extinguishment
(Ex*tin"guish*ment) n.
1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished; extinction; suppression; destruction; nullification; as,
the extinguishment of fire or flame, of discord, enmity, or jealousy, or of love or affection.
2. (Law) The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. Abbott.
Extirp
(Ex*tirp") v. t. [Cf. F. extirper.] To extirpate. [Obs.]
It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar.
Shak. Extirpable
(Ex*tir"pa*ble) a. Capable of being extirpated or eradicated; as, an extirpable plant. Evelyn.
Extirpate
(Ex"tir*pate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Extirpated; p. pr. & vb. n. Extirpating] [L. extirpatus, exstirpatus,
p. p. of extirpare, exstirpare; ex out + strips stock, stem, root.] To pluck up by the stem or root; to
root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumor; to
extirpate a sect; to extirpate error or heresy.
Syn. — To eradicate; root out; destroy; exterminate; annihilate; extinguish.
Extirpation
(Ex`tir*pa"tion) n. [L. extirpatio, exstirpatio: cf. F. extirpation.] The act of extirpating or
rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of
weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
Extirpative
(Ex"tir*pa*tive) a. Capable of rooting out, or tending to root out. Cheyne.
Extirpator
(Ex"tir*pa`tor) n. [L. extirpator, exstirpator: cf. F. extirpateur.] One who extirpates or roots
out; a destroyer.
