English-Finnish translations for extinguish

• sammuttaa
  Kuinka voimme sammuttaa konfliktien ja sisällissotien tulet kehitysmaissa? How can we extinguish the fires of conflict and civil war in these developing countries?
  Islamilaiset ja valtion viranomaiset uhkaavat itsepintaisesti sammuttaa lehdistönvapauden liekin Algeriassa. Islamic fundamentalists and state authorities threaten, and are determined, to extinguish the flame of the freedom of the press in Algeria.
  Yhteisön talousarvion kannalta on kyse vain pisarasta valtameressä, mutta arvoisa komission jäsen, sillä pisaralla voidaan sammuttaa monta metsäpaloa. When it comes to the Community budget, this funding is a drop in the ocean, but, Commissioner, it is a drop of water that will enable many fires to be extinguished.
• himmentää
• metsästää/kalastaa/tappaa sukupuuttoon
• tuhota

Definition of extinguish

• to put out, as in fire; to end burning; to quench
• to obscure or eclipse something
• to bring about the extinction of a conditioned reflex
• to hunt down to extinction

Examples

• She extinguished all my hopes.
• They intended to extinguish the enemy by force of numbers
• The rays of the sun were extinguished by the thunder clouds.
• A beauty that extinguishes all others by comparison
• Many patients can extinguish their phobias after a few months of treatment.

Related words

• unextinguished
• unextinguishable
• extinguisher
• extinguishable
• inextinguishable
• extinguishment
• extinguishant
• inextinguishably
• self-extinguishing