Extinction

Noun

 * 1) The action of making or becoming extinct; annihilation.
 * 2)  The absorption or scattering of electromagnetic radiation emitted by astronomical objects by intervening dust and gas before it reaches the observer.

Adjectives for Extinction
final; certain; hurried; speedy; inevitable; total; subsequent.

Verbs for Extinction
blot into —; decay into —; demand — of; deplore —; doom to —; flicker into —; guard against —; meet —; mourn —; plan—; prevent —; suffocate into —; surrender to —; threaten with —; warn against —; witness —; yield to —.

Thesaurus
nullification, occultation, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, perishing, purge, putting out, quenching, quietus, release, rescission, rest, reward, rooting out, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, silencing, sleep, smotheration, smothering, snuffing, snuffing out, somatic death, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, summons of death, suppression, uprooting, vanishing, vanishing point, voiding, wipe, abolishment, abolition, abscission, amputation, annihilation, annulment, bane, biological death, blackout, blocking, burning out, burnout, cessation of life, choking, choking off, clinical death, controlling, crossing the bar, curtains, damping, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease, dematerialization, demise, departure, deracination, destruction, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, doom, dousing, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, elimination, end, end of life, ending, eradication, erasure, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, excision, exclusion, exit, expiration, extermination, extinguishment, extirpation, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, final summons, finger of death, fire fighting, flame-out, going, going off, going out, grave, hand of death, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leaving life, liquidation, loss of life, making an end, melting, mutilation, negation,

Etymology
< extinction: <  extinctio: < extinguere:, past participle extinctus:; see extinguish.

Related terms

 * extinct
 * extinguish

Translations

 * Bosnian: izumiranje
 * Catalan: extinció
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: zánik, vymření , vyhynutí (dying out)
 * Danish: uddøen, tilintetgørelse , udslettelse
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Aussterben
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian: kepunahan
 * Japanese: 絶滅
 * Korean:, 滅種
 * Polish: wygaszenie, wymarcie,  wytępienie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: