[Lexicog] extinguish ~ die

[Wayne Leman]

"For me "go out" is also perfectly normal, and it has a good many more 
ghits."

I'd like to study the semantic range of "ghits". Maybe "ghits" would work as 
a monolexemic gloss for when a fire goes out or dies.

:-)

Wayne Leman

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For me "go out" is also perfectly normal, and it has a good many more ghits. 
It more easily refers to a sudden extinguishing of a flame; "die out" 
requires/expects that the flame cease without clear or immediate external 
causation, and thus usually will be an observably gradual process.

--David T



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