extinct
/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ adjective B1- Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
- 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. · 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. · Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
- Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting. · 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.
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Edmond waited till life seemed extinct in the body of his friend, then, taking up the knife, he with difficulty forced open the closely fixed jaws, carefully administered the appointed number of drops, and anxiously awaited the result.
“No, no, be easy on that score; the family is extinct.
They were thus perpetually employed,—Faria, that he might not see himself grow old; Dantès, for fear of recalling the almost extinct past which now only floated in his memory like a distant light wandering in the night.
It was evident that the fiery temper of the Baskervilles was not extinct in this their last representative.
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