extinct

Etymology 1
From Late, from , , the  s of , , from  +  (from ). The Middle English word displaced,. .

Adjective

 * 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 * 5)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.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)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
 * 3)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 4)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 5)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
 * 2)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 3)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 4)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
 * 2)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 3)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 4)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
 * 2)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 3)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 4)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
 * 2)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 3)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 4)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 2)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 3)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
 * 2)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 3)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 2)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
 * 2)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
 * 1)  Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

Translations

 * Armenian:, մարած
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: elhamvadt,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 멸종된
 * Macedonian: изумрен
 * Polish: wygasły, zagasły
 * Portuguese:, extinguido
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: згаслий


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian:


 * Dutch: in onbruik
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Arabic: مُنْقَرِض
 * Armenian: վերացած
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:, vymřelý
 * Danish: uddød
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: formortinta
 * Faroese: útdeyður
 * Finnish: sukupuuttoon kuollut
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hawaiian: halapohe, make, nalowale
 * Hebrew: נכחד
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 멸종된, 멸종한
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: utdødd
 * Nynorsk: utdødd, utdøydd
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: vymretý,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: ви́мерлий
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: אויסגעשטאָרבן


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: vyhaslý
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Malay:
 * Polish: wygasły
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian:

Etymology 2
From, from extinct (adjective) (see etymology 1) +.

Verb

 * 1)  To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
 * 2)  To kill (someone).
 * 3)  To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
 * 4)  To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective ).
 * 5)  To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
 * 6)  To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
 * 1)  To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective ).
 * 2)  To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
 * 3)  To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
 * 1)  To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
 * 2)  To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
 * 1)  To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
 * 1)  To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
 * 1)  To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).

Usage notes
(“to cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct”) is the only sense that is current.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: udrydde
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: tappaa sukupuuttoon, kalastaa sukupuuttoon, metsästää sukupuuttoon
 * German:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: utrydde
 * Polish:

Etymology 3
Either:


 * from, , a use of the    of ,  (see etymology 1); or
 * from the (see etymology 2).