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EXTINCTED
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Classic
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Big
11
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Super Big
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EXTINCTED is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.
EXTINCTED root EXTINCT-ed
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adjective
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archaicOf fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
- Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.
- figurativelyOf feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
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figurativelyOf customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.
- Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
- The title became extinct when the last baron died.
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figurativelyOf an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
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figurativelyOf a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
- Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
- They found the sites of extinct geysers.
- figurativelyOf a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
- figurativelyobsoleteOf a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
verb
- obsoletetransitiveTo stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
- figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo kill (someone).
- figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- figurativelyobsoletespecificallytransitiveTo cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective etymology 1 sense 2.3).
- figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.
- figurativelyobsoletetransitiveTo abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a license, etc.).
noun
- obsoletetransitiveuncountableSynonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).