EXTINCTION Synonyms

• destruction by annihilating something

• total destruction

• the state of being cancelled or annulled

• (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc)

• the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation

• the event of dying or departure from life

• the personification of death

• the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism

• the absence of life or state of being dead

• the time when something ends

• the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

• a final state

• the act of killing

• the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

• an event that completely destroys something

• a final state

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

• a sudden decline in strength or number or importance

• the act of removing or getting rid of something

• the bodily process of discharging waste matter

• analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

• the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations

• the murder of a competitor

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• destruction by annihilating something

• the complete destruction of every trace of something

• a coming to an end of a contract period

• a place where something ends or is complete

• something that results

• the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

• the act of ending something

• a sudden or mysterious disappearance

• a sudden disappearance from sight

• no longer in existence

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

• the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

• a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus