Extinction synonyms
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destruction (related)
Destruction is defined as the tearing down or dismantling or killing of something.
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.
The surgical removal of an organ, a part of an organ, or a diseased tissue.
Extinguishment
(Physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.
blotting out
Extinguishment
The act by which something is doused.
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The legal abolition and prohibition of slavery.
dying-out
Annihilation
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.
The state of being plucked up by the roots.
The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
Anything that serves to quiet, curb, or end an activity
(Physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
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putting-out
Extinguishment
The act by which someone or something is smothered.
The act of something becoming darker.
The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out.
turning-out
Extinguishment
turning-off
Extinguishment
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The total destruction of something
The termination or extinction of something:
The act of dying; death.
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.
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.
The act of one that passes; specif., death
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The act or fact of dying
help (related)
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
make (related)
The way in which something is made; style; build
live (related)
The act or fact of dying
background extinction mass extinction (related)
The fact of being extinct or the process of becoming extinct.
the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
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deforestation (related)
recolonisation (related)
cataclysm (related)
over-exploitation (related)
An instance of a person or animal drowning.
experimental extinction
a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
defunctness
The state or quality of being defunct.
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die-off (related)
over-hunting (related)
catastrophe (related)
end-permian (related)
population explosion (related)
Find another word for extinction. In this page you can discover 47 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for extinction, like: destruction, extermination, extirpation, stifling, annihilation, blotting out, dousing, abolition, , murder and eradication.