[Lexicog] extinguish ~ die

[David Tuggy]

On the contrary, when it really ghits ghoing!

--dt

Wayne Leman wrote:
> "For me "go out" is also perfectly normal, and it has a good many more 
> ghits."
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> 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.
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> :-)
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> 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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