extinguir
extinguish ; stub out ; stub.
His sudden gust of audacity was quickly extinguished by her words and by her glance.
Nicotine patches may not help smokers to stub out the habit, according to a new study.
But what are we as the citizens of the country doing to stub the problem?.
extinguirse
die out
go + the way of the dodo
follow + the dodo
go + the way of the horseless carriage
go + the way of the dinosaur(s)
become + extinct
peter out
These changes accelerated through much of the nineteenth century, with the older material such as the chivalric romance dying out about the 1960s.
Today, all of the early independents have gone the way of the dodo = En la actualidad, todas las empresas independientes originales han desaparecido.
It has the choice: to follow the dodo or to rise again like the phoenix.
When databases of information (particularly in full text) first became available on the Internet, many users felt that thesauri and subject classifications were no longer needed and would go the way of horseless carriages.
The library will have to learn to cope with new technology and even larger amounts of material if it wishes to avoid going the way of the dinosaur.
Forestry officials have created suntraps in one of the region's beauty spots to prevent a species of the ant family from becoming extinct.
Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months.
extinguirse gradualmente
die off
Bees in southern Germany have been dying off in their hundreds of thousands.
extinguirse poco a poco
die off
Bees in southern Germany have been dying off in their hundreds of thousands.
extinguir un incendio
extinguish + fire
Water was used to extinguish the fire.
sin poder extinguirlo
inextinguishably
Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
