Definition of Extinction

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Extinction

The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim.

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Extinction Quotations

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Susan Sontag

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Wangari Maathai

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. Ballard

Extinction Translations

extinction in French is purge
extinction in Italian is estinguere
extinction in Norwegian is utslettelse, slokking

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