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Extinguish

Extinguish

1. To abolish; to quench, as a flame; to cause loss of identity; to destroy.

2. In psychology, to progressively abolish a previously conditioned response.

See: conditioning.

Origin: L. Extinguo, to quench


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... Taking Out the Trash This is not the person I meant to become, painted over with grief, standing alone in the street while the arc sodium lamps extinguish, one by one. A bird twitters, and low in the distance there is the sound of machines grinding up - the crane on third, the garbage men on ...

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