extinguish

extinguish
ex·tin·guish vt
1: to cause the nonexistence of: do away with
2: to cause (as a claim or right) to be void: nullify
3: to get rid of (a debt or other liability) by payment or other compensatory adjustment
ex·tin·guish·able adj
ex·tin·guish·ment n

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

extinguish
I verb abolish, abort, annihilate, annul, assassinate, blot out, bring to an end, butcher, cancel, choke, crush, cut out, deaden, deal destruction, demolish, deracinate, destroy, devastate, dismantle, dispel, dispense with, do away with, drown out, efface, end, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguere, extirpate, finish off, hold down, keep down, kill, kill by suffocation, lay waste to, liquidate, murder, nullify, obliterate, put an end to, put out, put to death, quash, quell, quench, raze, reduce to nothing, repress, restinguere, ruin, shatter, slaughter, slay, smother, squash, squelch, stifle, strangle, subdue, suffocate, suppress, terminate, wipe out associated concepts: extinguish a debt, extinguish a legacy, extinguish a right foreign phrases:
- Resoluto jure concedentis resolvitur jus concessum. — When the right of the grantor is extinguished the right granted is extinguished.
- Extincto subjecto, tollitur adjunctum. — When the substance is extinguished, the incident ceases.
II index abolish, annul, cancel, cease, destroy (efface), destroy (void), disappear, eradicate, expunge, extirpate, inhibit, kill (defeat), obliterate, quash, stifle, strangle, subvert, suppress

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006


extinguish
v.
To end; to cancel; to void a right; to quench or put out, as a fire.

The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. . 2008.

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