Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being extinguished.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being quenched, destroyed, or suppressed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective able to be
extinguished
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being extinguished or killed
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Examples
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The CFPA would ensure that the financial system remains ‘non-extinguishable’, and would have the confidence of the business sector!!
Wonk Room » Financial Services Industry Working With GOP To Plan August Lobbying Offensive 2009
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Hand out 'shares' in the US at citizenship (say, 1000 shares), extinguishable at death or original owner, but traded only on a central exchange.
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We know there are few fires, few fires observed while extinguishable, and few successful extinguishments; BUT we want the ability to make the choice and the tools to succeed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pretend “Gun-Free” School Zones: A Deadly Legal Fiction 2009
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Are fundamental rights extinguishable at the will of a government?
When Doves Cry: US-backed Ethiopian regime imprisons opposition 2009
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Homer, dreaded nothing more than water or drowning; probably upon the old opinion of the fiery substance of the soul, only extinguishable by that element; and therefore the poet emphatically implieth+ the total destruction in this kind of death, which happened to Ajax Oileus.
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Even NYFD audiotapes of firefighters who reached the South tower†™ s impact point reveal that they “judged the blazes to be manageable†and were easily extinguishable in less than an hour.
Think Progress » Kristol: “One or More Indictments in the Next Three Weeks†2005
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Had our Enemy been able to do more than act the mischeivous child and set a few quickly-extinguishable fires, or make a few prank calls, he would have done so.
2005/04 - 2005/05 Zoe Brain 2005
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Had our Enemy been able to do more than act the mischeivous child and set a few quickly-extinguishable fires, or make a few prank calls, he would have done so.
Archive 2005-04-01 Zoe Brain 2005
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Since that person had been kin to this woman who was dark with unspent energy, she figured him as being not quite extinguishable by death and therefore still a tenant of the apartment.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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Egremont's perishable love, her own prudential forecasts and schemings, were stamped poor, worldly, ignoble, in comparison with this sacred and extinguishable ardour.
Thyrza George Gissing 1880
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