extinguishment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished. countable,uncountable
    — […] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]
  2. The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation. countable,uncountable

词形变化

extinguishments plural

词源

Etymology tree
English extinguish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English extinguishment
From extinguish + -ment.
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