EXTINCT

a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton.

2.
a.

Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

3.
v.

To cause to be extinct. [Obs.] Shak.