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UK
/ɛkstˈɪŋkt/
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[ US /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ ]
[ US /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives
extinct laws and customs
an extinct royal family
an extinct species of fish -
being out or having grown cold
the fire is out
threw his extinct cigarette into the stream -
(of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive
an extinct volcano
How To Use extinct In A Sentence
- If we don't save the rich people today they might be extinct tomorrow just like the dinosaurs. * shedding a fake tear for the plight of the rich* knixphan Says: Think Progress
- Dinosaurs had been extinct for 50 million years. Times, Sunday Times
- I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
- Its population is so small that forecasts put it on the brink of extinction. Times, Sunday Times
- Whether it is a native cat, previously thought extinct, or an escaped exotic pet, the Beast of Bodmin is a creature that refuses to disappear.
- Pity the turtles and cherish them, for they too are on the conservationist's list of vulnerable species and in danger of extinction.
- THE international trade in Atlantic blue fin tuna could be banned in a dramatic move to save the fish from extinction. The Sun
- Experts fear they could be the first great ape to become extinct in the wild. The Sun
- It is a strange fact that Dionaea, which is one of the most beautifully adapted plants in the vegetable kingdom, should apparently be on the high-road to extinction. Insectivorous Plants
- And it's always easier for a species to go extinct than to recolonise. Times, Sunday Times
