Extinction synonyms

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destruction (related)
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
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extermination
The act of exterminating; total destruction; eradication; excision; as, the extermination of inhabitants or tribes, of error or vice, or of weeds from a field.
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extirpation
The surgical removal of an organ, a part of an organ, or a diseased tissue.
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stifling
Extinguishment
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annihilation
(Physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
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eradication
The state of being plucked up by the roots.
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extinguishment
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
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quenching
(Physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
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dousing
The act by which something is doused.
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abolition
The legal abolition and prohibition of slavery.
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blotting out
Extinguishment
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dying-out
Annihilation
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murder (related)
The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
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quietus
Anything that serves to quiet, curb, or end an activity
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putting-out
Extinguishment
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smothering
The act by which someone or something is smothered.
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darkening
The act of something becoming darker.
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snuffing
The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
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turning-out
Extinguishment
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turning-off
Extinguishment
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liquidation
The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
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obliteration
The total destruction of something
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death
The termination or extinction of something:
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decease
The act of dying; death.
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demise
The conveyance of an interest in real property for a specified time period by will or lease; the death of a person or cessation of a corporate entity.
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dissolution
The termination, cessation, or winding up of a legal entity such as a corporation or partnership; the consensual or judicially ordered undoing of a contract by placing the parties back into the positions they held before entering into it; the termination of a marriage.
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passing
The act of one that passes; specif., death
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rest
(Euphemistic, uncountable) A final position after death.
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The act or fact of dying
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crimes (related)
Plural form of crime
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help (related)
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
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make (related)
The way in which something is made; style; build
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live (related)
The act or fact of dying
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background extinction mass extinction (related)
The fact of being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.
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extinguishing
the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
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deforestation (related)
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recolonisation (related)
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cataclysm (related)
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over-exploitation (related)
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drowning
An instance of a person or animal drowning.
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experimental extinction
a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
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defunctness
The state or quality of being defunct.
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die-off (related)
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over-hunting (related)
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catastrophe (related)
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end-permian (related)
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population explosion (related)
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Extinction Sentence Examples

  • Extinction may come about indirectly and even more surely.

  • On the extinction of the male line of the house of Habsburg in Spain he was named heir by the will of Charles II.

  • But in the 13th century it began to fail, and in 1591 the drying up of the Papireto caused the extinction of the plant in that district.

  • It received town rights from Frederick Barbarossa, and after the extinction of the Hohenstaufen became a free imperial town.

  • Though now on the way to extinction, Cycadeae are still widely represented in the southern hemisphere by genera which, however, have no counterpart in the Mesozoic era.

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