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ex-stinguō or extinguō nxī

(exstinxstī for exstinxistī, exstinxem for exstinxissem, V.), nctus, ere, to put out, quench, extinguish: lumina: ignis exstinguitur, goes out: ignem, V.—To deprive of life, kill, destroy: Seni animam, T.: hunc volnere: iuvenem morbo, L.: primo exstinguor in aevo, O.: intra annum exstinctus est, Ta.: aquam Albanam dissipatam rivis, get rid of, L. (oracle).—Fig., to abolish, destroy, annihilate, annul: tyrannis institutis leges omnes exstinguuntur: improbitas exstinguenda est: exstinctae potius amicitiae quam oppressae, died out: exstinctis rumoribus, Cs.: nomen populi R.: infamiam: patrem Cum genere, V.: te propter Exstinctus pudor, lost, V.

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