fire extinguisher

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   a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires

   Synonymsextinguisherasphyxiator

   Broaderdevice

Questions about fire extinguisher

What does fire extinguisher mean?

fire extinguisher means "a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires".

What is another word for fire extinguisher?

Close synonyms include extinguisher, asphyxiator. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fire extinguisher a common word?

fire extinguisher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.