From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
1. p. p. of {destroy}. [Narrower terms: {annihilated,
exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate,
desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted};
{blighted, spoilt}; {blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated}; {demolished, dismantled, razed}; {done
for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,
finished(predicate)}; {extinguished}; {ruined, wiped
out(predicate), impoverished}; {totaled, wrecked};
{war-torn, war-worn}; {despoiled, pillaged, raped,
ravaged, sacked}] Also See: {damaged}. Antonym:
{preserved}
[WordNet 1.5]
2. destroyed physically or morally.
Syn: ruined.
[WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Extinguish \Ex*tin"guish\ ([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sh), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Extinguished}([e^]ks*t[i^][ng]"gw[i^]sht); p
pr. & vb. n. {Extinguishing}.] [L. extinguere, exstinguere;
ex out + stinguere to quench. See {Distinguish}, {Finish}.]
1. To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to
cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to
extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense
or a right.
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A light which the fierce winds have no power to
extinguish. --Prescott.
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This extinguishes my right to the reversion.
--Blackstone.
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2. To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
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Natural graces that extinguish art. --Shak
.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
extinguished \extinguished\ adj.
1. (Psychol.) caused to die out because of the absence or
withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. no longer burning; -- of a fire.
Syn: extinct, out(predicate), quenched.
[WordNet 1.5]
3. no longer existing; -- of species.
Syn: dead.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
extinguished
adj 1: of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of
the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
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