English-French translations for extinguish

• éteindre
  Nous avons expédié du matériel pour pomper l’eau et pour éteindre les incendies. We dispatched equipment to pump water and to extinguish fires.
  Cette question ayant été soulevée, je saurais gré à M. Watson d’éteindre les bougies. Having made his point, I thank Mr Watson for extinguishing the candles.
  Ces trente morts sont ceux qui sont décédés directement pour éteindre l'incendie. Those were just the 30 direct deaths at the time the fire was extinguished.
• moucher

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