extinguish
verb (used with object)
to put out (a fire, light, etc.); put out the flame of (something burning or lighted).
unextinguishable
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a word derived from
extinguish.
Example Sentences
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His long arms, his athleticism and his unextinguishable competitive fire made West one of the NBA’s best players, a 14-time All-Star, a 12-time All-NBA selection and a four-time runner-up for most valuable player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
The Orsi family had bought a palace in Castello, and there they could have settled themselves happily enough had they not been driven on by an unextinguishable desire to regain what they had lost.
From The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Long may it be read and remembered with an unextinguishable glow of pride and patriotism!
From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Robert Walsh
And he had that unextinguishable interest in both actors and acting which makes a little separate world of the “quality.”
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
To the employers they predicted ruin; to the houseowners, desolation and emptiness; to the publicans the reign of puritanism; to the emancipists the ascendancy of the free, to be followed by unextinguishable persecution.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
