Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable.

synonyms: blow, burn out.

Roget 142: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.    have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up etc. (relinquish) 624.    hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels.    come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive etc. 292; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away etc. (be past) 122; be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.    intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel^†; intermit, remit; put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill; stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-string, pull the plug on.    ... show more

Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights.

synonyms: extinguish, quench, snuff out.

Roget 421: be dark etc. adj.. darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow; eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate^†; obumbrate^†, adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim^†, bedarken^†; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.    extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.    turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the lights, switch off the lights.    ... show more

Roget 388a: go out, die out, burn out; fizzle.    extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.    fireproof, flameproof.    ... show more

Dutch: blussen, doven, uitblazen, uitblussen, uitdoven, vernietigen

Erupt in an uncontrolled manner.