参考词典中extinguish的常规释义:
基本释义
- vt. 熄灭,消灭,偿清
词形变化
- 时 态:ex·tin·guished, ex·tin·guish·ing, ex·tin·guish·es名 词:ex·tin'guish·ment形容词:ex·tin'guish·a·ble
参考例句
- The storm extinguished their last hope for rescue.
风暴使他们最后的获救希望破灭了。 - One failure after another extinguished her hope.
屡次失败使她的希望幻灭了。 - It took us hours to extinguish the fires.
我们用了好几个小时才把火扑灭。 - Firemen extinguished the blaze quickly.
消防人员很快地扑灭火焰。 - This is a new method of extinguishing forest fires.
这是一种扑灭森林之火的新方法。
- The storm extinguished their last hope for rescue.
英英解释
4个动词解释
- put an end to; kill
[同] extinguish, snuff out
[例]- The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children
- put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
[同] extinguish, blow out, quench, snuff out
[反] ignite, light
[例]- Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
- quench the flames
- snuff out the candles
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- extinguish by crushing
[同] crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out
[例]- stub out your cigar
- kill in large numbers
[同] decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, annihilate, carry off, wipe out
[例]- the plague wiped out an entire population
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