EXTINGUISH

v. 1 put or snuff or blow out, quench; turn off or out We are landing shortly, so please extinguish all smoking materials Extinguish the lights before leaving. 2 kill (off), annihilate, destroy, obliterate, abolish, exterminate, eliminate, do away with, nullify, eradicate, remove, banish, wipe or blot out The potion contained a drug that extinguished all memory of unhappiness 3 obscure, eclipse, dim, outdo, put in the shade, overshadow, adumbrate, Colloq show up His personality is completely extinguished by the dazzle of his wife