extinguished

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extinguished - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
     1. p. p. of destroy. [Narrower terms: annihilated,  exterminated, wiped out(predicate)
        ; blasted, desolate,  desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted
        ;
        blighted, spoilt; blotted out, obliterate,  obliterated
        ; demolished, dismantled, razed; done  for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,  finished(predicate)
               ; extinguished; ruined, wiped  out(predicate), impoverished
        ; totaled, wrecked;
        war-torn, war-worn; despoiled, pillaged, raped,  ravaged, sacked
        ] Also See: damaged. Antonym:
        preserved
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     2. destroyed physically or morally.
  
     Syn: ruined.
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  extinguished \extinguished\ adj.
     1. (Psychol.) caused to die out because of the absence or
        withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.
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     2. no longer burning; -- of a fire.
  
     Syn: extinct, out(predicate), quenched.
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     3. no longer existing; -- of species.
  
     Syn: dead.
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  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.
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              A light which the fierce winds have no power to
              extinguish.                           --Prescott.
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              This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
                                                    --Blackstone.
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     2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
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              Natural graces that extinguish art.   --Shak
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extinguished - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  extinguished
      adj 1: of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of
             the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement