extinct /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/adjective 7verb 7noun 1forms 3 adjective7 •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 radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life. •Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.They found the sites of extinct geysers. •(figurative) Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me. — 1611 •(figurative, no longer used) Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.[H]e may at lybertie / Passe saue without hys ieopardy / Tyll that he be from vs extyncte / And clerely out of helles precincte — 1545 •(no longer used) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking. verb7 •Synonym of extinguish. •(no longer used) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.[…] Eugenia […] was put in the hot baths, which were extincted, and she preserued: […] At last the storie saith, shée was with the sword beheaded. — 1610 •(figurative, no longer used) To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench. •(figurative, no longer used) To kill (someone). •(figurative, no longer used) To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.Graunt that al sinne & vice here maie bee so extinct: that thei neuer haue power to raigne in they seruaũtes. Amẽ. — 1549 •(figurative, no longer used) To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective etymology 1 sense 2.3). •(figurative, no longer used) To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a license, etc.). noun1 •(no longer used) Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).[W]ho is he […] as vvould not euen in the glas of Lucresias perseuerãce (euẽ to the vttermost extinct of life) se the vvõder of bevvty, matched vvith the indiuiduat adiũt vnsoyled constancy. — 1606 formsextincted · extincting · extincts