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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
extinguish .
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Examples
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The former extinguishes courage, but the latter can choke it out.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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The former extinguishes courage, but the latter can choke it out.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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The profit warning for the TV unit, which has been a drag on the company for several years, extinguishes any hope that the division could turn profitable in 2011, and forces the question of whether Philips' new Chief Executive Frans van Houten should sell the unit when he takes the helm after the company's annual general meeting on Thursday.
Philips' TV Business Feels Pressure Anna Marij van der Meulen 2011
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The removal of the latter extinguishes the former: it is no accident, he says in Homo Sacer, that Jews under the Third Reich were formally stripped of their citizenship before being consigned to the camps.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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The former extinguishes courage, but the latter can choke it out.
Dreamseller: The Calling Augusto Cury 2011
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The fruit of their visit was "The All-Searing Eyes," the lead story in Action Comics #558 (cover-dated August 1984), in which Superman extinguishes the fire raging beneath Coaltown.
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Finally, the accelerants responsible for the burnout that extinguishes so many teaching careers -- lacking of planning time, too heavy a workload, and problematic student behavior -- would be abated by the efforts of other conscripts.
Dan Ross: An Army of Nation Builders: How National Conscription Can Save Public Education Dan Ross 2011
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Finally, the accelerants responsible for the burnout that extinguishes so many teaching careers -- lacking of planning time, too heavy a workload, and problematic student behavior -- would be abated by the efforts of other conscripts.
Dan Ross: An Army of Nation Builders: How National Conscription Can Save Public Education Dan Ross 2011
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Connie extinguishes the cigarette in his nearly empty bottle, sets it down on the coffee table, and retrieves a fresh one from the crate.
A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011
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Here in the thick of the grossest capitalismround the corner comes the shining fire brigadeand extinguishes, or suddenlythere's silver in the beggar's hat.
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