extinguish
v.to stop a fire from burning or to end a feeling or idea completely.
v.to cause a flame or fire to cease burning; figuratively, to bring an end to a hope, feeling, or legal right.
“Firefighters worked for hours to extinguish the forest fire.”
“The news of the budget cuts served to extinguish any remaining hope for the project's completion.”
“In legal contexts, a debt or obligation may be extinguished once the specific conditions of the contract have been fully satisfied by both parties.”
The verb is transitive and requires a direct object.
Usage extinguish the fire
“All relevant services are on site, working to extinguish the fire,” he said.”
“After battling blazes overnight and extinguishing them on Saturday, a second drone started another fire on Sunday, Hardan said.”
Borrowed 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 adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.