погаси́ть — meaning in English
pogasit
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English meaning
- cancel verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- douse verb To drench something thoroughly with liquid.
- extinguish verb To put out a fire or light.
- snub verb To deliberately ignore or treat someone coldly, as an insult.
Senses
погаси́ть is used for these senses in English:
- cancel (transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.
- douse (transitive) To put out; to extinguish.
- extinguish To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
- put out To extinguish (fire).
- snub (transitive) To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- turn off (transitive) To power down, to switch off, to put out of operation, to deactivate (an appliance, light, mechanism, functionality etc.).
cancel — full definition
- verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
- verb To make something officially invalid.
- verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
- verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.
douse — full definition
- verb To drench something thoroughly with liquid.
- verb To put out a flame or light.