Verb

• S: (v) snuff out (snuff_out%2:30:00::), extinguish (extinguish%2:30:00::) (put an end to; kill) "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
• S: (v) snuff out (snuff_out%2:43:00::), blow out (blow_out%2:43:00::), extinguish (extinguish%2:43:00::), quench (quench%2:43:00::) (put out, as of fires, flames, or lights) "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
• S: (v) stub out (stub_out%2:30:00::), crush out (crush_out%2:30:00::), extinguish (extinguish%2:30:05::), press out (press_out%2:30:00::) (extinguish by crushing) "stub out your cigar"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) end (end%2:30:01::), terminate (terminate%2:30:01::) (bring to an end or halt) "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
• S: (v) change (change%2:30:01::), alter (alter%2:30:01::), modify (modify%2:30:10::) (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
• sentence frame
• S: (v) extinguish (extinguish%2:30:03::), eliminate (eliminate%2:30:01::), get rid of (get_rid_of%2:30:00::), do away with (do_away_with%2:30:00::) (terminate, end, or take out) "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
• S: (v) eliminate (eliminate%2:30:00::), annihilate (annihilate%2:30:00::), extinguish (extinguish%2:30:01::), eradicate (eradicate%2:30:00::), wipe out (wipe_out%2:30:00::), decimate (decimate%2:30:00::), carry off (carry_off%2:30:00::) (kill in large numbers) "the plague wiped out an entire population"