| kerosene lamp | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. kerosene lamp, kerosine lamp, oil lamp | a lamp that burns oil (as kerosine) for light. |
| ~ lamp | an artificial source of visible illumination. |
| ~ lamp chimney, chimney | a glass flue surrounding the wick of an oil lamp. |
| ~ davy lamp, safety lamp | an oil lamp that will not ignite flammable gases (methane). |
| ~ wick, taper | a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame. |
| unsightly | | |
| adj. | 1. unsightly | unpleasant to look at.; "unsightly billboards" |
| ~ ugly | displeasing to the senses.; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" |
| extinguish | | |
| v. (change) | 1. extinguish, snuff out | put an end to; kill.; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" |
| ~ do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish | terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
| ~ stamp | destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot.; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny" |
| ~ put out, smother | deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion.; "smother fires" |
| v. (weather) | 2. blow out, extinguish, quench, snuff out | put out, as of fires, flames, or lights.; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles" |
| ~ stub | extinguish by crushing.; "stub out your cigarette now" |
| ~ douse, put out | put out, as of a candle or a light.; "Douse the lights" |
| ~ black out | obliterate or extinguish.; "Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived" |
| v. (change) | 3. crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out | extinguish by crushing.; "stub out your cigar" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| v. (change) | 4. do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of | terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts" |
| ~ cancel out, wipe out | wipe out the effect of something.; "The new tax effectively cancels out my raise"; "The `A' will cancel out the `C' on your record" |
| ~ decouple | reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another). |
| ~ decouple | eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive). |
| ~ obliterate | do away with completely, without leaving a trace. |
| ~ knock out | eliminate.; "knock out a target" |
| ~ drown | get rid of as if by submerging.; "She drowned her trouble in alcohol" |
| ~ cut out | delete or remove.; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article" |
| ~ prune, rationalize, rationalise, cut | weed out unwanted or unnecessary things.; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" |
| ~ extinguish, snuff out | put an end to; kill.; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children" |
| ~ exclude, leave out, omit, except, leave off, take out | prevent from being included or considered or accepted.; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" |
| ~ destroy, destruct | do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of.; "The fire destroyed the house" |
| v. (change) | 5. annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out | kill in large numbers.; "the plague wiped out an entire population" |
| ~ decimate | kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies. |
| ~ kill | cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly.; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays" |
| quench | | |
| v. (consumption) | 1. allay, assuage, quench, slake | satisfy (thirst).; "The cold water quenched his thirst" |
| ~ ingest, consume, have, take in, take | serve oneself to, or consume regularly.; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" |
| ~ fulfil, fulfill, satisfy, meet, fill | fill or meet a want or need. |
| v. (social) | 2. quench | electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device. |
| ~ bottle up, suppress, inhibit | control and refrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior. |
| v. (change) | 3. quell, quench, squelch | suppress or crush completely.; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion" |
| ~ conquer, inhibit, stamp down, suppress, curb, subdue | to put down by force or authority.; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" |
| v. (change) | 4. quench | reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance. |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| v. (change) | 5. quench | cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid.; "quench steel" |
| ~ cool, cool down, chill | make cool or cooler.; "Chill the food" |
| snuff out | | |
| turn off | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. cut, switch off, turn off, turn out | cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" |
| ~ kill | cause to cease operating.; "kill the engine" |
| ~ flip, switch, throw | cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever" |
| v. (motion) | 2. turn off | make a turn.; "turn off at the parking area" |
| ~ turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" |
| v. (emotion) | 3. put off, turn off | cause to feel intense dislike or distaste. |
| ~ repel, repulse | be repellent to; cause aversion in. |
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