extinct

Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.archaicnot-comparable

• Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.

Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.figurativelynot-comparable

• My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
• I am the Lord, your holy one, the Creatour of Iſrael, your King. […] Which bringeth foorth the charet and horſe, the armie and the power: they ſhall lie downe together, they ſhall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as towe.

Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.figurativelynot-comparable

• Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
• The title became extinct when the last baron died.

Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.figurativelynot-comparable

• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.

Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.figurativelynot-comparable

• Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
• They found the sites of extinct geysers.

Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.figurativelynot-comparable

Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.figurativelynot-comparableobsolete

• [H]e may at lybertie / Paſſe ſaue without hys ieopardy / Tyll that he be from vs extyncte / And clerely out of helles precincte

Synonym of extinguish.; To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.obsoletetransitive

• […] Eugenia […] was put in the hot baths, which were extincted, and ſhe preſerued: […] At laſt the ſtorie ſaith, ſhée was with the ſword beheaded.

Synonym of extinguish.; To kill (someone).figurativelyobsoletetransitive

Synonym of extinguish.; To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.figurativelyobsoletetransitive

• Graunt that al ſinne & vice here maie bee ſo extinct: that thei neuer haue power to raigne in they ſeruaũtes. Amẽ.

Synonym of extinguish.; To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.figurativelyobsoletespecifically

• Paleontologists determine which animal species were extincted, and geomorphologists can find cycles of soil erosion. […] The first settlers were living along the coast of this very large island off Africa [Madagascar], but in about seven hu

Synonym of extinguish.; To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.figurativelyobsoletetransitive

• It is more hard, loue to our ſelues to extinkt, / Then hate to other, to plucke from tharts preſinkt, / Thus, of iuſtice no let ledeth intrupcion, / Like this loue (name ſelfe loue) growne of corrupcion.
• Great Ioue, Othello guard, / And ſvvell his Saile vvith thine ovvne povvrefull breath, / That he may bleſſe this Bay vvith his tall Ship, / Make loues quicke pants in Deſdemonaes Armes, / Giue renevv'd fire to our extincted Spirits.

Synonym of extinguish.; To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a license, etc.).figurativelyobsoletetransitive

• And foraſmuch as the ſaid Statute vvas ordained to give a Certainty of Title in the Lands and Tenements compriſed in the Fine, it ſeemeth that the Fine extincteth the Title of all other, as vvell in Conſcience, as it doth in the Lavv.

Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).obsoletetransitiveuncountable

• [W]ho is he […] as vvould not euen in the glas of Lucreſias perſeuerãce (euẽ to the vttermoſt extinct of life) ſe the vvõder of bevvty, matched vvith the indiuiduat adiũt vnſoyled conſtancy.
• [W]ee have cauſe to feare the loſſe of our Kingdome, and you the extinct of the Engliſh nations renovvne; […]