Extinguished

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of extinguish.
  • adj. referring to something that has been eliminated
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.
  • adj. no longer burning; -- of a fire.
  • adj. no longer existing; -- of species.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Quenched; put out; destroyed. Specifically: In pharmacy, rendered indistinguishable through fine subdivision: noting the condition produced by triturating mercury with lard until the metallic globules are no longer visible.
  • In the petrographical investigation of rocks and minerals with a polarizing microscope, noting the complete darkening of a transparent section of a bire-fracting mineral when its axes of elasticity coincide with the planes of the crossed Nicol prisms.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
  • Equivalent
    destroyed   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    extinct    out(predicate)    quenched    destroyed    dead   
    Verb Stem
    extinguish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound