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10 letters · 21 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb put an end to; kill
verb put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
verb extinguish by crushing
originBorrowed from Latin extinguo (“to put out (what is burning), quench, extinguish, deprive of life, destroy, abolish”), from ex (“out”) + stinguere (“to put out, quench, extinguish”). Doublet of extinct.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- hexing 17
- existing 16
- exiting 15
- sexting 15
- sixth 15
- sexing 14
- nixies 13
- unisex 13
- exing 13
- hex 13
- heisting 12
- nighties 12