extinction [ik-stingk-shuhn] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
extinction [ik-stingk-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dying out
Synonyms: annihilation, death, destruction, elimination, end of life, no life, obsolescence, thing of the past
Main Entry: death
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: end of life
Synonyms: afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb
Antonyms: being, birth, entity, existence, life, living
Main Entry: decay
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: breaking down, collapse
Synonyms: adulteration, atrophy, blight, caries, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decadence, decline, decomposition, decrease, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, dying, extinction, fading, failing, gangrene, impairment, mortification, perishing, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, rot, rotting, ruin, ruination, rust, senescence, spoilage, spoilation, wasting, wasting away, withering
Antonyms: development, flourish, germination, growth, improvement, ripening, strength, strengthening
Example Sentences
  • Extinction is a steady process, exacting a continuous toll of species even in the best of times.
  • Evidently, he does not, judging from his behaviour in driving animals to extinction and exhausting his supply of materials.
  • As long as human population continues unabated growth, no species is safe from extinction.
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Main Entry: demise
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fate, usually death
Synonyms: annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination
Notes: demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence
Antonyms: birth
Main Entry: desolation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: uninhabitated area; barrenness
Synonyms: bareness, bleakness, desert, devastation, dissolution, extinction, forlornness, isolation, loneliness, ruin, solitariness, solitude, waste, wildness, wreck
Antonyms: civilization
Main Entry: destruction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: demolition, devastation
Synonyms: abolishing, abolition, annihilation, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing, extirpation, havoc, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaughter, slaying, subjugation, subversion, subverting, undoing, wreckage, wrecking
Antonyms: building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration
Main Entry: dissolution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: death; destruction
Synonyms: adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination
Antonyms: beginning, commencement, construction, start
Main Entry: eclipse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shadowing of the sun
Synonyms: concealment, darkening, decline, diminution, dimming, extinction, extinguishment, obliteration, obscuration, occultation, penumbra, shading, shroud, veil
Main Entry: end
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: death, destruction
Synonyms: annihilation, demise, dissolution, doom, expiration, extermination, extinction, finish, passing, ruin, ruination
Antonyms: birth, construction, creation
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