- past participle of extinguish.
- past tense form of extinguish.
extinguished
Example Sentences
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The British driver's championship hopes were all but extinguished by an engine failure while he was running third at the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia last Sunday.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
"The Saumos forest fire, which burned 42,000 hectares this summer, including 37,296 hectares destroyed, is now extinguished," state services wrote in a statement, adding no deaths had been reported.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
He ended that speech saying that Diana would “never be extinguished from our minds,” a line he now says he included as a retort to Charles’s call saying that she would be forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Firefighters worked to tackle a blaze which broke out after the crash, and the flames had been extinguished by Monday evening.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
One by one, the campfires were extinguished, and the oasis fell as quiet as the desert.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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