Synonyms of the word extinction


EXTINCTIONACTION - ACTIVITY - ANNIHILATION - CONCLUSION - CONDITIONING - DEATH - DEFUNCTNESS - DISINTEGRATION - ENDING - EXTERMINATION - EXTINGUISHING - INACTION - INACTIVENESS - INACTIVITY - QUENCHING - TERMINATION

extinction

  • n. The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
  • n. (astronomy) The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects…

action

  • n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • n. A way of motion or functioning.
  • n. A fast-paced activity.
  • n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
  • n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
  • n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
  • n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
  • n. (military) Combat.
  • n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
  • n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
  • n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
  • n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
  • n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
  • n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
  • interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
  • v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
  • v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

activity

  • n. The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active…
  • n. Something done as an action or a movement.
  • n. Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
  • n. Use (of internet, Playstation, bank account etc.).

annihilation

  • n. The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence.
  • n. The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can…
  • n. The state of being annihilated.
  • n. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

conclusion

  • n. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
  • n. The outcome or result of a process or act.
  • n. A decision reached after careful thought.
  • n. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
  • n. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
  • n. (law) The end or close of a pleading, e.g. the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
  • n. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

conditioning

  • n. The process of modifying a person or animal's behaviour.
  • n. Any preparation or training, especially athletic training of the body.
  • n. The storage of a material specimen under specified temperature, humidity for a specified time prior to…
  • v. present participle of condition.

death

  • n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent…
  • n. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
  • n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.

defunctness

  • n. The state or quality of being defunct.

disintegration

  • n. A process by which anything disintegrates.
  • n. The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
  • n. (geology) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost,…

ending

  • v. present participle of end.
  • n. A termination or conclusion.
  • n. The last part of something.
  • n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").

extermination

  • n. The act of exterminating; total destruction or eradication.
  • n. Elimination.

extinguishing

  • v. present participle of extinguish.

inaction

  • n. Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

inactiveness

  • n. The quality of being inactive.

inactivity

  • n. The quality of being inactive; idleness; passiveness.

quenching

  • n. (physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
  • n. The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.
  • v. present participle of quench.

termination

  • n. The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
  • n. The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
  • n. An end in time; a conclusion.
  • n. An end in space; an edge or limit.
  • n. An outcome or result.
  • n. The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
  • n. (medicine) An induced abortion.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) A word, a term.
  • n. The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

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