EXTINGUISH

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extinguish verb tranzitiv

1. a stinge;

(fig.) to take oil to extinguish the fire a pune paie pe foc, a turna gaz peste foc.

2. (fig.) a stinge, a potoli.

3. (fig.) a întuneca, a umbri.

4. (fig.) a stinge, a distruge, a nimici.

5. (jur.) a stinge, a amortiza, a achita, a anula (datorii, obligaţii).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Though I had now extinguished my candle and was laid down in bed, I could not sleep for thinking of his look when he paused in the avenue, and told how his destiny had risen up before him, and dared him to be happy at Thornfield.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Being, at last, ready to leave the office for the night, he asked me if it would suit my convenience to have the light put out; and on my answering “Yes,” instantly extinguished it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Remorse extinguished every hope.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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