Pronunciations (3)
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/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/
Pronunciation notes
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/ɪkˈstɪŋt/
Pronunciation notes
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ɪkˈstɪŋkt
Adjective
Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
Usage- Archaic
- not-comparable
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Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.
Ah pleaſant proof! / That piety has ſtill in human hearts / Some place, a ſpark or tvvo not yet extinct.
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Most of the lamps were extinct, but they glittered golden in the morning light, and in some few a pale white flame yet struggled with day.
Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
Usage- Figurative
- not-comparable
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My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
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I am the Lord, your holy one, the Creatour of Iſrael, your King. […] Which bringeth foorth the charet and horſe, the armie and the power: they ſhall lie downe together, they ſhall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as towe.
Conversation seemed nearly extinct, and yet neither offered to turn back.
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I knew at Paris a criminal condemned to die by the halter, […] He was cut down, and given to his friends before life was extinct, and I had the good fortune to recover him.
Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
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- not-comparable
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Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
The title became extinct when the last baron died.
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[King Edward] as being deſcended of the eldeſt Daughter of Dauid, Earle of Huntingdon, a yonger ſonne of [Henry of] Scotland; vvhoſe iſſue (the line of the elder brother being extinct) vvas to inherite, vvithout queſtion.
[I]f the father bee infeoffed with warrantie to him and his heyres, the father infeoffeth his eldeſt ſon with warrantie and dieth, the Law giueth to the ſonne aduantage of the Warrantie made to his father, becauſe by act in Law the Warrantie betweene the father and the ſonne is extinct.
[W]hen the Povver of an Aſſembly is once ſuppreſſed, the Right of the ſame periſheth utterly; becauſe the Aſſembly it ſelfe is extinct; and conſequently, there is no poſſibility for the Soveraignty to re-enter.
An Eccleſiaſtical Cenſure is tvvofold; the one inflicted by Lavv; and the other inflicted by Man. […] Some ſay, That a Cenſure ab Homine, ceaſes on the Death of the Perſon, that pronounced the ſame; but a Cenſure inflicted à Jure continues, tho' ſuch Lavv be extinct, or the Lavv-giver removed from his Office.
The hatred with which he [George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys] was regarded by the people of Somersetshire has no parallel in our history. […] When he had been many years dead, when his name and title were extinct, his granddaughter, the Countess of Pomfret [Henrietta Louisa Fermor], travelling along the western road, was insulted by the populace, and found that she could not safely venture herself among the descendants of those who had witnessed the bloody assizes.
The withdrawal in past months of the former North London Railway locomotive from Bow, and one of the three ex-Great Eastern engines from Stratford works, indicates that the crane locomotive will soon be extinct on British Railways.
The ex-G.C. Class A5 4-6-2T, of which No. 69820 was one, is now extinct.
Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system writes in there as two words but therein as one word might be taken as suggesting that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as thereby.
Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.
Usage- Figurative
- not-comparable
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Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
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I vvent dovvn aftervvards into Yorkſhire; but my Father vvas dead, and my Mother, and all the Family extinct, except that I found tvvo Siſters, and tvvo of the Children of one of my Brothers; […]
[M]any breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common.
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I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species.
Wrex: And before you die, I want you to know I'm calling off our support for Earth! If my people go extinct, so do yours!
Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
The result is essentially a hybrid species similar in appearance to its extinct forerunner.
Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
Usage- Figurative
- not-comparable
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Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
They found the sites of extinct geysers.
Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
Usage- Figurative
- not-comparable
Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
Usage- Figurative
- not-comparable
- Obsolete
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[H]e may at lybertie / Paſſe ſaue without hys ieopardy / Tyll that he be from vs extyncte / And clerely out of helles precincte
Verb
Synonym of extinguish. To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
Usage- Obsolete
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[…] Eugenia […] was put in the hot baths, which were extincted, and ſhe preſerued: […] At laſt the ſtorie ſaith, ſhée was with the ſword beheaded.
Synonym of extinguish. To kill (someone).
Usage- Figurative
- Obsolete
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Synonym of extinguish. To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
Usage- Figurative
- Obsolete
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Graunt that al ſinne & vice here maie bee ſo extinct: that thei neuer haue power to raigne in they ſeruaũtes. Amẽ.
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[…] Almes doe deliuer from all ſinne and from death;[…]. Not from that (ſaith Cyprian) which the blood of Chriſt hath once extincted, and from which the wholeſome grace of our baptiſme, and of our redeemer hath deliuered vs, but from that death which afterwards creepeth in by ſinne, &c.
Synonym of extinguish. To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy. To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective etymology 1 sense 2.3).
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Paleontologists determine which animal species were extincted, and geomorphologists can find cycles of soil erosion. […] The first settlers were living along the coast of this very large island off Africa [Madagascar], but in about seven hundred years they had spread across the entire island and in the process extincted almost all large game, including hippos, tortoises, giant lemurs—some two dozen species in all.
Synonym of extinguish. To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
Usage- Figurative
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It is more hard, loue to our ſelues to extinkt, / Then hate to other, to plucke from tharts preſinkt, / Thus, of iuſtice no let ledeth intrupcion, / Like this loue (name ſelfe loue) growne of corrupcion.
Great Ioue, Othello guard, / And ſvvell his Saile vvith thine ovvne povvrefull breath, / That he may bleſſe this Bay vvith his tall Ship, / Make loues quicke pants in Deſdemonaes Armes, / Giue renevv'd fire to our extincted Spirits.
Synonym of extinguish. To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a license, etc.).
Usage- Figurative
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So if I have a rent charge, and grant it upon condition; now, though the condition be broken, the grantee's estate is not defeated till I have made my claim: but if after any such grant my father purchase the land, and it descend to me; now, if the condition be broken, the rent ceaseth without claim. But if I had purchased the land myself, then I had extincted mine own condition, because I had disabled myself to make my claim.
And foraſmuch as the ſaid Statute vvas ordained to give a Certainty of Title in the Lands and Tenements compriſed in the Fine, it ſeemeth that the Fine extincteth the Title of all other, as vvell in Conſcience, as it doth in the Lavv.
Noun
Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
- Uncountable
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[W]ho is he […] as vvould not euen in the glas of Lucreſias perſeuerãce (euẽ to the vttermoſt extinct of life) ſe the vvõder of bevvty, matched vvith the indiuiduat adiũt vnſoyled conſtancy.
[W]ee have cauſe to feare the loſſe of our Kingdome, and you the extinct of the Engliſh nations renovvne; […]
Adjective
no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
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an extinct species of fish
an extinct royal family
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extinct laws and customs
(of e.g. volcanoes) permanently inactive
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an extinct volcano
being out or having grown cold
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threw his extinct cigarette into the stream
the fire is out