Extinction Definition

ĭk-stĭngkshən
extinctions
noun
extinctions
The act of extinguishing.
The extinction of the fire took several hours.
American Heritage Medicine
A putting out or being put out, as of a fire.
Webster's New World
The condition of being extinguished.
Mourned the extinction of their dreams.
American Heritage Medicine
A destroying or being destroyed; annihilation; abolition.
Webster's New World
The fact or state of being or becoming extinct.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Extinction

Noun

Singular:
extinction
Plural:
extinctions

Origin of Extinction

  • From French extinction, from Latin extinctio (“extinction, annihilation”), from extinguere, past participle extinctus (“to extinguish”); see extinguish.

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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.

  • 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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Words Starting With

EEXEXT

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NONION

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