Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: extent – extort
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extent (-s), n. [see extend, v.]
- Space; degree; compass; capacity; length; breadth.
- Moment; period of time.
exterior, adj. [L.'outside, foreign'.]
External; foreign; on the outside.
exterminate, v. [L. < ex, out + terminus, limit, boundary.]
Cease; exhaust; deplete; extinguish; run out; become unavailable; come to an end.
external, adj. [L.'outward'.]
Outer; exterior.
externally, adv. [see external, adj.]
Outwardly; visibly.
extinct, adj. [L. < ex, intensive + stinguēre, to quench.]
Dead; ceased; ended; passed away.
extinction (-'s), n. [see extinct, adj.]
- Destruction; loss of being; suppression of being; [fig.] death.
- End; disappearance; death; [fig.] eclipse; obscuring; darkening; quenching of light; extinguishing of radiant energy.
extinguish (-ed), v. [L. < ex, intensive + stinguēre, to quench.]
- Overwhelm; eclipse; surpass; obscure by superior splendor.
- Snuff out; put out; cause to go dark; [fig.] appear to lose light, heat, and fire in sunset.
- Drown; quench.
- Die; perish; expire.
- Darken; disappear; appear to die.
extol, v. [L. < ex, out + tollo, to raise.]
- Eulogize; elegize; memorialize; commemorate; remember in words.
- Commend; magnify; lift up; praise highly; [fig.] immortalize.
extort (-ed), v. [L. extorquere < ex, out + torquere, to twist, to arise.]
Wrest; wring; catch; grab; take; steal; pull up; draw from by force.