Extinct
Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.
Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.
To cause to be extinct.
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Extinct Quotations
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
Jeanette Winterson
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct.
Paula Abdul
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Kevin Kelly
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
George G. Simpson
If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for.
Tommy Shaw
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
Tom Hooper
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.
Frederic William Farrar
Extinct Translations
extinct in German is erloschen
extinct in Spanish is extinguido
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