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Another word for extinction

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extinction

n.

Extinguishment
quenching, drowning, putting out, blotting out, darkening, snuffing, turning out, turning off, smothering, stifling, dousing.
Annihilation
abolition, extermination, extirpation, dying out; see destruction 1, murder.

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Another word for extinction

noun

Utter destruction:
annihilation, eradication, extermination, extinguishment, extirpation, liquidation, obliteration. See crimes, help, make
The act or fact of dying:
death, decease, demise, dissolution, passing, quietus, rest¹. (Slang) curtain (used in plural). See live

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Extinction may come about indirectly and even more surely.
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.
This ratification of the oligarchical principle, together with the establishment in 1311 of the Council of Ten, completed that famous constitution which endured till the extinction of the republic in 1797.
On their extinction it passed to the Saxon house, and in 1007 the emperor Henry II.
Whereas Plato's main problem had been the organization of the perfect state, and Aristotle's intellect had ranged with fresh interest over all departments of the knowable, political speculation had become a mockery with the extinction of free political life, and knowledge as such had lost its freshness for the Greeks of the Roman Empire.

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