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extinct
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1432; borrowed from Latin extinctus, the past participle of extinguere (“to put out, destroy, abolish, extinguish”), corresponding to ex- + stinguere (“to quench”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st??kt/, /?k?st??kt/
- Rhymes: -??kt
Adjective
extinct (not comparable)
- (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.
- No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
- The title became extinct when the last baron died.
- Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
- 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 a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.
- (geology) No longer active.
Synonyms
- (no longer used): See also Thesaurus:obsolete
- (having died out): See also Thesaurus:inexistent
- (volcanology: no longer erupting): dead
Antonyms
- (no longer alight): burning
- (having died out): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
- (volcanology: no longer erupting): active, dormant
Related terms
- extinction
- extinctive
- extinguish
- distinct
Translations
Further reading
- extinct at OneLook Dictionary Search
- extinct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- extinct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
extinct (third-person singular simple present extincts, present participle extincting, simple past and past participle extincted)
- (transitive, nonstandard) To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.
extinct From the web:
- what extinction killed the dinosaurs
- what extinct animals are being brought back
- what extinction are we in
- what extinct dinosaurs
- what extinction event killed the dinosaurs
- what extinct animals are still alive
- what extinct means
- what extinct animals are coming back
disappeared
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??p??d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s??p??d/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /d?s??pi??d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Adjective
disappeared (not comparable)
- (often of a political dissident) Caused to disappear.
Translations
Verb
disappeared
- simple past tense and past participle of disappear
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,
disappeared From the web:
- what disappeared in utah
- what disappeared in the desert
- what disappeared from sir henry's room
- what disappears during prophase
- what disappears as soon as you say it
- what disappears in prophase
- what disappears in telophase
- what disappears when assimilation occurs
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