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Extinct
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] Shak.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton.
2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.