Words that rhyme with extinguish

  • anguish
    n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture] 2: extreme distress of body or mind v 1: suffer great pains or distress 2: cause emotional anguish or make miserable; "It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school" [syn: pain, anguish, hurt]
  • contradistinguish
    v 1: distinguish by contrasting qualities
  • distinguish
    v 1: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart] 2: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart] 3: be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; "His modesty distinguishes him from his peers" [syn: distinguish, mark, differentiate] 4: make conspicuous or noteworthy [syn: signalize, signalise, distinguish] 5: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name]
  • languish
    v 1: lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief; "After her husband died, she just pined away" [syn: pine away, waste, languish] 2: have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish] 3: become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon" [syn: languish, fade]
  • relinquish
    v 1: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up] 2: do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas" [syn: waive, relinquish, forgo, forego, foreswear, dispense with] 3: turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever" [syn: foreswear, renounce, quit, relinquish] 4: release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall" [syn: let go of, let go, release, relinquish] [ant: hold, take hold]
  • vanquish
    v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish]
  • english
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of England or its culture or people; "English history"; "the English landed aristocracy"; "English literature" 2: of or relating to the English language n 1: an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries [syn: English, English language] 2: the people of England [syn: English, English people] 3: the discipline that studies the English language and literature 4: (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist [syn: English, side]
  • unwish

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