Extinguish
Crossword Clue and Answers
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We most recently saw this clue in Evening Standard Easy Crossword.
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Publications
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Monday, 19 Apr 2021
- Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Wednesday, 3 Feb 2021
- The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Monday, 6 Jan 2020
- The New York Times Crossword - Tuesday, 20 Feb 2018
Crossword Answers
3 letters
PUT
Adapt; "put these words to music"
4 letters
DOUT
DAMP
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
KILL
The destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile; "the pilot reported two kills during the mission"
5 letters
DOUSE
Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face"
DOUSE
SNUFF
Sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
QUELL
Suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
DOWSE
Searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
6 letters
PUTOUT
An out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout); "the first baseman made 15 putouts"
QUENCH
Cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid; "quench steel"
7 letters
STUBOUT
Extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"
WIPEOUT
A spill in some sport (as a fall from a bicycle or while skiing or being capsized on a surfboard)
BLOWOUT
A gay festivity
SMOTHER
Conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
8 letters
GETRIDOF
Do away with; "Slavery was abolished in the mid-19th century in America and in Russia"
SNUFFOUT
Put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
CARRYOFF
Remove from a certain place, environment, or mental or emotional state; transport into a new location or state; "Their dreams carried the Romantics away into distant lands"; "The car carried us off to the meeting"; "I'll take you away on a holiday"; "I got carried away when I saw the dead man and I started to cry"
DECIMATE
Kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies
CRUSHOUT
Extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"
PRESSOUT
Obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
STAMPOUT
End or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!"
9 letters
ELIMINATE
Eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone"
ERADICATE
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
10 letters
DOAWAYWITH
Terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
ANNIHILATE
Kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"