Synonyms:
snuff_out, extinguish
Meaning: put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
Usage examples
He would extinguish the sun if the sun incommoded him.
In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice.
Notwithstanding the low condition into which the house of peers was fallen, there appeared some intention of rejecting this ordinance; and the popular leaders were again obliged to apply to the multitude, and to extinguish, by threats of new tumults, the small remains of liberty possessed by the upper house.
Steady!' cried Eugene (he had recovered immediately on embarking), as they bumped heavily against a pile; and then in a lower voice reversed his late apostrophe by remarking ('I wish the boat of my honourable and gallant friend may be endowed with philanthropy enough not to turn bottom-upward and extinguish us!) Steady, steady!