Lewis Short
(verb) : inter-stinguo (stinxi), stinctum, 3
* In gen., to separate, mark off, divide; to variegate or checker with any thing (only in perf. pass.): spatia interstincta columnis,Stat. S. 3, 5, 90: facies medicaminibus interstincta,Tac. A. 4, 57: candor interstinctus variis coloribus,Plin. 37, 10, 54, § 143: aureum capitis figmentum interstinctum lapillis,Amm. 19, 1, 3.
* In partic.
* To extinguish: quae faciunt ignes interstingui atque perire,Lucr. 5, 761: ardor interstinctis aquis,Mart. Cap. 9, § 915poet.
* To kill: aliquem,App. M. 4, p. 147, 34.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary