Extinction Synonyms

ĭk-stĭngkshən
Extinguishment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. quenching
  2. drowning
  3. death
  4. putting-out
  5. decease
  6. blotting out
  7. darkening
  8. demise
  9. snuffing
  10. dissolution
  11. turning-out
  12. extinguishing
  13. turning-off
  14. passing
  15. smothering
  16. quietus
  17. stifling
  18. rest
  19. dousing
A conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. experimental extinction

Words Related to Extinction

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. destruction
  2. crimes
  3. live
  4. help
  5. background extinction mass extinction
  6. murder
  7. make
  8. die-off
  9. over-hunting
  10. catastrophe
  11. end-permian
  12. population explosion
  13. deforestation
  14. recolonisation
  15. cataclysm

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.

  • 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 the extinction (1218) of that dynasty both castle and town passed to the counts of Kyburg, and from them, with the rest of their possessions, in 1272 by marriage to the cadet line of the Habsburgs.

  • 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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