Meaning

• Adj

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 Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.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