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EXTINGUISHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
Classified under:
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb extinguish
Context examples:
Marianne, few as had been her hours of comfort in London, and eager as she had long been to quit it, could not, when it came to the point, bid adieu to the house in which she had for the last time enjoyed those hopes, and that confidence, in Willoughby, which were now extinguished for ever, without great pain.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer’s eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility’s education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Impossible!—when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The family, after having been thus occupied for a short time, extinguished their lights and retired, as I conjectured, to rest.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I spoke from the pit of my stomach for the rest of the journey, but I felt completely extinguished, and dreadfully young.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Peals of thunder so loud as to seem to shake the edifice to its foundation will roll round the neighbouring mountains—and during the frightful gusts of wind which accompany it, you will probably think you discern (for your lamp is not extinguished) one part of the hanging more violently agitated than the rest.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The heat I had contracted by coming very near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well to the proper places, that in three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from destruction.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But now, when I appeared almost within grasp of my foe, my hopes were suddenly extinguished, and I lost all trace of him more utterly than I had ever done before.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
