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extinguished
Word definitions for extinguished in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
referring to something that has been eliminated v (en-past of: extinguish )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
extinguished \extinguished\ adj. (Psychol.) caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response. no longer burning; -- of a fire. Syn: extinct, out(predicate), quenched. no longer existing; -- of species. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
Usage examples of extinguished.
Some craters had remained visible only because of the central cone of a volcano extinguished for many centuries.
Now, because the sun disclosed the dog's ears, flies flared up and were extinguished in the kennel.
On the contrary, they rather enflamed his curiosity than extinguished it.
Yes, there were gaslights, but they had not been turned on, or else had been extinguished as soon as the lamplighter had gone on his way.
The faint glow from his nearly extinguished fire pot cast the room into halftones of rose and black.
The fish came off the hook in midflight and fell flopping high on the bank where Charles humanely extinguished its simple pain.
I shall hold myself in readiness for leaving my room, and I shall leave it when I see the light extinguished in the ante-room, while I shall take care that my candle be so placed as not to shew any light outside, or to reflect my shadow.
The reader will have guessed that the last look my charmer gave me had not extinguished the fire which the first sight of her had kindled in my breast.
However, the telescopes, placed on orbiters in space, were hit several times by streams of radiation singular enough to rekindle extinguished hopes.
The beloved Master had ordered the pseudostars extinguished for better visibility, and the night beyond the lights of the city was black as pitch.
All that distinguishes a galvanic cell from the sources of electricity used before the time of Volta is its faculty of immediately re-establishing the field which prevails between its poles, whenever this field becomes extinguished by the presence of a conductor.
On the morning of the sixth day, with the rest of Rome out of danger, the vigiles finally advanced into fire-gutted areas and extinguished the last remaining embers.
The ship, engines extinguished, drifted in a far aphelion, while in the embryonator all the lights went on and the heads of the medicoms hung over the containers, ready to begin.
Whatever had cost these pyramid builders their lives had not been berserkers, for the rest of the native biomass had not been extinguished with them.
As I approached and then walked in among the first trailers, lights were extinguished here and there as weary carnies went to bed.