spegnere — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
spegnere is used for these senses in English:
- go out To be turned off or extinguished.
- put out To extinguish (fire).
- quench (transitive) To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
- shut down (ergative) To turn off or stop.
- smother (transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- switch off (transitive) To stop or disable a device by turning a switch or a lever.
- turn off (transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
- turn out (transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device.
quench — full definition
- verb To satisfy thirst, or more broadly, a strong desire.
- verb To put out a fire or extinguish a flame.
- verb To rapidly cool hot metal by plunging it into water or oil.
smother — full definition
- verb To cover something so completely that it cannot get air, cutting off its breathing or, for a fire, its oxygen.
- verb To suppress or hold back a feeling, reaction, or activity almost completely.
- verb To cover something thickly, especially food, with a sauce, topping, or affection.