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词汇 extinguished
释义 extinguished
past simple and past participle ofextinguish
extinguish
verb[ T ]
uk /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ us /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/

extinguishverb[T] (FIRE/LIGHT)


to stop a fire or a light burning: 熄灭,扑灭(火或光)
It took the firefighters several hours to extinguish the flames.消防队员花了几个小时才将烈焰扑灭。
to extinguish a cigarette掐灭香烟
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Fire service
beat something out
extinguisher
fire alarm
fire blanket
fire department
fire engine
fire hydrant
fire marshal
fire truck
firebreak
firehouse
fireman
fireplug
firetrail
firetrap
flameproof
hose
quench
smoke detector
tender

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Stopping fires

extinguishverb[T] (FEELING/IDEA)


literary
to stop or get rid of an idea or feeling: 使(想法或感情)破灭;使消亡
Nothing could extinguish his love for her.什么都无法熄灭他对她的爱情之火。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forgetting and forgetfulness
absent-minded
absent-mindedly
absent-mindedness
amnesia
amnesiac
anterograde
blur
bury
erase
forget
forget itidiom
forgetful
forgetfully
forgetfulness
retrograde amnesia
rustily
rusty
scatterbrained
scatty
senior moment

Examples of extinguished


extinguished

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Yet if the candle is extinguished, the same region looks white.
Further, its reification has largely extinguished consideration of alternative classificatory models for depressive disorders.
Then the face of the sun was eaten; then the face of the sun was darkened; then its face was extinguished.
One could argue that the war consumed itself, but that the tensions that fuelled it were not completely extinguished.
While they were sleeping, after the lamps were extinguished, the raven started dancing and jumping on the iglus and on the cliff.
Over the course of thousands of trials these illicit combinations were gradually extinguished.
This granted the creatures a positive tropism towards light; however, their own lamps would be extinguished if the new light signal became too powerful.
That the original fear association still exists underneath the blanket of safety is suggested by observations that extinguished fears can return spontaneously.
It is true that in operant learning, behavior is reinforced or extinguished according to the pragmatic outcome.
And because they are relative, they may reasonably be limited by means of regulation or extinguished through compulsory purchase.
Nor is the credit exposure automatically extinguished by unit-linked securitization of the scheme, where this path is followed.
This was routinely extinguished during receptive-field plotting and for some stimulus testing.
Many surface fires burn during the day, only to be extinguished when relative humidity increases in the evening.
At the end of the initial fixation period, the spot was then extinguished for 1.0 s and then turned back on.
She receives little praise and few rewards, and eventually her heroic efforts are extinguished from lack of reinforcement.
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