Adjective
Not extinct; still living.
Usage- not-comparable
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There was only one person in the village who had actually known Luella Miller. That person was a woman well over eighty, but a marvel of vitality and unextinct youth.
Verb
To make not extinct; especially, to return an extinct species to existence.
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Removing graffiti. Unextincting the dodo bird.
He was a resequenced neanderthal named Stiggins and soon to be, I assumed, divisional head of SO-13, the department that policed all unextincted creatures.
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The good news is that, with the exception of the giant auk which will only return if genetic cloning can find a way to 'unextinct' it, there are ways of getting our wildlife out of the intensive care unit.
To correct, or otherwise account for the extinction of an astronomical object.