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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

  1. verb To call off or stop something planned from happening.
  2. verb To make something officially invalid.
  3. verb In mathematics, to remove a common factor from both parts of a fraction or equation.
  4. verb Informally, to withdraw public support from someone over controversial behaviour.

douse — full definition

  1. verb To drench something thoroughly with liquid.
  2. verb To put out a flame or light.

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