- eliminate my debts.
- Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics.
- quench the flames.
- snuff out the candles.
- Socialism extinguished these archaic customs.
- stub out your cigar.
- The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children.
- the plague wiped out an entire population.
- Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained.