extinct

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1. Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
2. Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
3. Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, 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.
4. Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
5. Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
6. Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
7. (obsolete) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

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/ɪkˈstɪŋ(k)t/

PIE word *h₁eǵʰs From Late Middle English extinct (“eliminated, eradicated, extinguished”), from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus (“extinguished, quenched; destroyed, killed; made extinct”), the perfect passive participles of extinguō, exstinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench; (figurative) to abolish; to destroy, kill”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + stinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench”) (from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push”)). The Middle English word displaced Middle English aqueint, aquenched (“extinct; extinguished”). Doublet of extinguish.

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