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Definition of Extinct
Extinct

Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.

Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

To cause to be extinct.

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Extinct Quotations

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
George G. Simpson

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson

Extinct Translations

extinct in German is erloschen
extinct in Spanish is extinguido


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