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Antonyms for extinction
ɪkˈstɪŋk ʃənex·tinc·tion

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  1. extinction

    Antonyms:
    origination, inception, planting, birth, fife, course, operation, action, exercise, prosperity, continuance, survival

    Synonyms:
    destruction, stifling, suffocation, death, cessation, annihilation, obsolescence

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. extinctionnoun

    no longer active; extinguished

    "the extinction of the volcano"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  2. extinction, defunctnessnoun

    no longer in existence

    "the extinction of a species"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  3. extinctionnoun

    the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  4. extinction, exterminationnoun

    complete annihilation

    "they think a meteor cause the extinction of the dinosaurs"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, liquidation, extinguishing

  5. extinction, experimental extinctionnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

  6. extinction, extinguishing, quenchingnoun

    the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning

    "the extinction of the lights"

    Synonyms:
    extermination, experimental extinction, defunctness, quenching, extinguishing

How to use extinction in a sentence?

  1. Turan Basri:

    The crowd became hostile very quickly due to wanting to go to work. I sympathize with the aims of Extinction Rebellion but this was an own goal, canning Town is a very working class area. Seeing what they perceived to be middle-class protesters preventing working class people from earning a living didn't go down well.

  2. Extinction Rebellion:

    Extinction Rebellion's latest target is McKinsey & Co, the world's leading management consultants, high priests of global capitalism, xR is demanding that McKinsey use its enormous influence over governments and business to effect drastic reduction of global carbon emissions and prevent the worst effects of climate breakdown.

  3. Felix Grewe:

    It's interesting to reaffirm that what people have been thinking for nearly 100 years is true, that this was a species driven to extinction by human activities, when this butterfly was collected 93 years ago, nobody was thinking about sequencing its DNA. That's why we have to keep collecting, for researchers 100 years in the future.

  4. Omar Entiauspe-Neto:

    It has a fairly small range, so while it still needs to be formally evaluated by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature), I think it might be threatened with extinction.

  5. Narin Chomphuphuang:

    We're primarily on a mission to study and save the biodiversity and wildlife found in these forests, particularly species-specific microhabitats, from extinction.

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