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annihilation
The act or process of annihilating.
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  1. The act or process of annihilating.
  2. (Physics) The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted to a combination of energy or energetic particles approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses.
  3. The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
eradication
The state of being plucked up by the roots.
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  1. The state of being plucked up by the roots.
  2. The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
extinction
The fact or state of being or becoming extinct
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  1. The fact or state of being or becoming extinct
  2. The condition of being extinguished:
  3. The fact of being extinct or the process of becoming extinct:
extirpation
The act of extirpating or uprooting.
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  1. The act of extirpating or uprooting.
  2. The surgical removal of an organ, a part of an organ, or a diseased tissue.
liquidation
A liquidating or being liquidated
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  1. A liquidating or being liquidated
  2. The act of exchange of an asset of lesser liquidity with a more liquid one, such as cash.
  3. The selling of the assets of a business as part of the process of dissolving the business.
abolishment
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16th century.]
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  1. The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. [First attested from the mid 16th century.]
abolition
Abolishment of slavery.
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  1. Abolishment of slavery.
  2. An abolishing or being abolished
  3. The legal abolition and prohibition of slavery.
annihilation
The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
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  1. The condition of having been annihilated; utter destruction.
  2. (Physics) The phenomenon in which a particle and an antiparticle, such as an electron and a positron, meet and are converted to a combination of energy or energetic particles approximately equivalent to the sum of their masses.
  3. The act or process of annihilating.
annulment
An annulling or being annulled
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  1. An annulling or being annulled
  2. An act of annulling.
  3. The invalidation of a marriage, as for nonconsummation, effected by means of a declaration stating that the marriage was never valid.
cancellation
A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear. For example, a court may call in, annul, and retain possession of a void deed to real estate that a party used to falsely claim title to someone else’s real property, in order to prevent any such claims in the future.
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  1. A remedy by which a court calls in, annuls, and retains possession of a void or rescinded written legal document because it may cause unnecessary litigation or make a person’s title to property unclear. For example, a court may call in, annul, and retain possession of a void deed to real estate that a party used to falsely claim title to someone else’s real property, in order to prevent any such claims in the future.
  2. The act, or the marks or perforations made in the act, of canceling something.
  3. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
defeasance
The abrogation of an interest in real property. The abrogation of an interest in real property.
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  1. The abrogation of an interest in real property. The abrogation of an interest in real property.
  2. The annulment of a contract or deed
  3. (US, law) The rendering void of a contract or deed; an annulment.
invalidation
The act of invalidating, or the state of being invalidated.
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  1. The act of invalidating, or the state of being invalidated.
negation
(Logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
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  1. (Logic) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
  2. The act or process of negating.
  3. The lack or opposite of some positive character or quality
nullification
The act or condition of negating the existence of a law, performed by individuals acting in a public capacity (for example, a jury) or by one level of government opposing the laws of another. The act or condition of negating the existence of a law, performed by individuals acting in a public capacity (for example, a jury) or by one level of government opposing the laws of another.
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  1. The act or condition of negating the existence of a law, performed by individuals acting in a public capacity (for example, a jury) or by one level of government opposing the laws of another. The act or condition of negating the existence of a law, performed by individuals acting in a public capacity (for example, a jury) or by one level of government opposing the laws of another.
  2. The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.
  3. In U.S. history, the refusal of a state to recognize or enforce within its territory any federal law held to be an infringement on its sovereignty
voidance
The condition of being vacant; emptiness.
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  1. The condition of being vacant; emptiness.
  2. Annulment, as of a contract
  3. The act of voiding, of defecating or removing.
avoidance
The act of shunning or avoiding.
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  1. The act of shunning or avoiding.
  2. Same as tax avoidance.
  3. (Law) The act of making void; annulment
Find another word for extinguishment. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for extinguishment, like: annihilation, eradication, extermination, extinction, extirpation, liquidation, obliteration, abolishment, abolition, abrogation and annihilation.

Sentence Examples

  • The Indians, however, resisted measures looking toward the extinguishment of their claims to the country.

  • 3 Among important but secondary measures of his second administration were the extinguishment of Indian titles, and promotion of Indian emigration to lands beyond the Mississippi; reorganization of the militia; fortification of the seaports; reduction of the public debt; and a simultaneous reduction of taxes.

  • Such an imprisonment does not operate as a satisfaction or extinguishment of the debt, and no second order of commitment can be made against him for the same debt, although where the court has made an order or judgment for the payment of the debt by instalments a power of committal arises on default of payment of each instalment.

  • Clause 9: Extinguishment of rights of statutory undertakers etc. 39.

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