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  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  extinguish
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To cause to stop burning or giving light.
Synonyms:  douse, put out, quench, snuff out
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  extinguish
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  abolish, annihilate, cancel, destroy, douse, eclipse, eliminate, end, expunge, nullify, quash, quell, quench, smother, snuff, stifle, suffocate, suppress, trample
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  abolish
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To put an end to, especially formally and with authority.
Synonyms:  abrogate, annihilate, annul, cancel, invalidate, negate, nullify, set aside, vitiate, void
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  annihilate
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To destroy all traces of.
Synonyms:  abolish, blot out, clear, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extirpate, kill, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root, rub out, snuff out, stamp out, uproot, wipe out
Idioms:  do away with, make an end of, put an end to
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  suppress
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight.
Synonyms:  choke off, crush, put down, quash, quell, quench, squash, squelch
Idioms:  put the lid on

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Cite This Source   Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 
Cite This Source   Synonym Collection v1.1
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