What is the meaning of extinguished?

verb

• Put an end to; kill.
  • usage: "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
  • synonyms: snuff out, extinguish
• Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights.
  • usage: "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
  • synonyms: snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench
• Extinguish by crushing.
  • usage: "stub out your cigar"
  • synonyms: stub out, crush out, extinguish, press out
• Terminate, end, or take out.
  • usage: "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
  • synonyms: extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with
• Kill in large numbers.
  • usage: "the plague wiped out an entire population"
  • synonyms: eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off

adjective

• Of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement. .