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Extinct

Extinct Meaning & Definition
Extinct Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Extinct?

[adj] of e.g. volcanos; permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
[adj] of a fire; being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "faint smoke from the extinguished candle"; "the fire is out"; "the quenched flames"
[adj] no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Extinct: dead | extinguished | inactive | nonextant | out(p) | quenched

Related Terms | Find terms related to Extinct: ago | all bets off | all gone | all off | all over | all up | ancient | annihilated | antediluvian | antiquated | antique | archaic | asleep | at an end | away | blown over | by | bygone | bypast | canceled | cold | collapsed | complete | concluded | dated | dead | dead and buried | deceased | decided | defunct | deleted | demode | departed | disappeared | disused | done | done for | done with | dormant | down the drain | elapsed | ended | exanimate | expired | expunged | extinguished | fallen | fini | finished | forgotten | gone | gone away | gone glimmering | gone out | gone-by | had it | has-been | inactive | irrecoverable | kaput | kaputt | lapsed | late | lifeless | lost | lost to sight | lost to view | missing | no more | nonexistent | obsolete | old hat | old-fashioned | out | out of date | out of sight | out of style | out of use | outmoded | outworn | over | overthrown | passe | passed | passed away | past | past and gone | perfected | perished | quenched | run out | set at rest | settled | shot | SOL | superseded | terminated | through | through with | unanimated | vanished | washed up | wiped out | wound up | zapped

See Also | nonexistent

Extinct In Webster's Dictionary

\Ex*tinct"\, a. [L. extinctus, exstinctus, p. p. of extinguere, exstinguere. See {Extinguish}.] 1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. --Milton. 2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
\Ex*tinct"\, v. t. To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] --Shak.

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