EXTINGUISH

transitive verb see: stick Date: circa 1540 1. a. to bring to an end ; make an end of , to reduce to silence or ineffectiveness, to cause to cease burning ; quench , to cause extinction of (a conditioned response), to dim the brightness of ; eclipse , 2. to cause to be void ; nullify , to get rid of usually by payment , ~able adjective ~er noun ~ment noun