Usually means: No longer existing; died out.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinct: Merriam-Webster
  2. extinct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. extinct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. extinct: Collins English Dictionary
  5. extinct: Vocabulary.com
  6. Extinct, extinct: Wordnik
  7. extinct: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. extinct: Wiktionary
  9. extinct: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. extinct: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. extinct: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. extinct: Dictionary.com
  13. extinct: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. extinct: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Extinct (Moonspell album), Extinct (album), Extinct (disambiguation), Extinct (film), Extinct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Extinct: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. extinct: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. extinct: Rhymezone
  19. Extinct: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. extinct: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. extinct: FreeDictionary.org
  22. extinct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. extinct: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. extinct: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. extinct: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extinct: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. extinct: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  3. extinct: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. extinct: Evolution Glossary
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. extinct: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (dated) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
adjective:  (figurative)
adjective:  Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
adjective:  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.
adjective:  (chiefly biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.
adjective:  (geology) Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
adjective:  (nuclear physics) Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
verb:  Synonym of extinguish
verb:  (obsolete) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
verb:  (obsolete, figurative) To kill (someone).
verb:  (obsolete, figurative) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
verb:  (specifically, biology) To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective sense 2.3).
verb:  (obsolete, figurative) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
verb:  (obsolete, figurative, chiefly law) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a licence, etc.).
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”)

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