extinguishing

, aor. ; (S, Msb, K;) and خَمِدَت, (A, K,) aor. ; (K;) inf. n. خُمُودٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and خَمْدٌ; (IKtt, K;) The fire subsided; its flaming; or blazing, ceasing; (S, A, Msb, K;) but its embers remaining unextinguished: (S, Msb, K:) when its embers have become extinguished, you say of it, هَمَدَت: (S:) or it died away, and became utterly extinguished. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] خَمَدَتِ الحُمَّى, (S, Msb, K,) or خَمِدَت, (A,) (tropical:) The fever became allayed: (A, Msb:) or the vehemence of the fever became allayed. (S, K.) ― -b3- And خَمَدَ (tropical:) He (a sick man, S) fainted, or swooned: (S, A, Msb, K:) or he died. (S, A, Msb.)

He allayed the flaming, or blazing, of the fire; leaving its embers unextinguished: (S, Msb, K:) or he extinguished the fire utterly. (Msb.) And اخمدتها الرِّيحُ The wind allayed its flaming, or blazing. (A.) -A2- (tropical:) He was, or became, still, or motionless, and silent. (K, TA.)

A place in which fire is buried in order that its flaming, or blazing, may cease; its embers remaining unextinguished: (S, K:) [or in order that it may become utterly extinguished: see 1.]

(tropical:) Silent; from whom no voice is heard: and in like manner, ↓ مُخْمِدٌ signifies still, or motionless, and silent: still, or motionless; having disposed and submitted himself to an affair, or event. (L.) خَامِدُونَ in the Kur xxxvi. 28 means (assumed tropical:) Silent and dead: (Jel:) or silent; having died, and become like extinguished ashes. (Zj, Bd. *)

: see the paragraph next preceding.