Synonyms:
extinction, extinguishing, quenching
Meaning: the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights"
Usage examples
His shaggy brows swept down over his eyes like ashes quenching flame.
Now it so happened that the master of Harrowby was a brave man, and while he was not particularly fond of interviewing ghosts, especially such quenching ghosts as the one before him, he was not to be daunted by an apparition.