extinguishment

The war, liberation of slaves, the sudden extinguishment of millions of property, bankrupted the South.

The sum left, after paying the interest of it for the year, is annually applicable to the extinguishment of the principal.

Every time science has taken one of your mediums in hand he or she has suffered extinguishment.

One could not but pity the extinguishment of her poor little great affairs.

A dozen different stories from a dozen different people were told about the extinguishment of the electric lights.