Crossword-Solution: EXTINCTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Extinction | n. | The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc. |
| Extinction | n. | State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction of life, of a family, of a quarrel, of claim. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “EXTINCTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the act of making extinct | 1 answer |
| complete annihilation | 1 answer |
| causing to stop burning | 1 answer |
| Some animals are close to it | 1 answer |
| MAKING extinct | 1 answer |
| BEING extinct | 1 answer |
| ABOLISHMENT | 1 answer |
| no life | 2 answers |
| long sleep | 4 answers |
| leveling | 7 answers |
| BAD end | 11 answers |
| mortality | 11 answers |
| nirvana | 11 answers |
| CLEAN slate | 14 answers |
| obliteration | 15 answers |
| extermination | 19 answers |
| Oblivion | 20 answers |
| annihilation | 26 answers |
| Demise | 27 answers |
| Decease | 51 answers |
| Havoc | 59 answers |
| Devastation | 66 answers |
| DEATH ___ | 67 answers |
| worthlessness | 75 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with EXTINCTION (5)
Yet even this scheme of extinction by death was but tamely copying her rival’s method without the reasons which had glorified it in her rival’s case.
Indeed, I found afterwards that horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, had followed the Ichthyosaurus into extinction.
Since they had no extensive muscular mechanism to recuperate, that periodical extinction was unknown to them.
Cyr—the rights and wrongs of which no outsider ever knew—had culminated in the downfall, the almost total extinction, of the latter.
The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class.
Quotes with EXTINCTION (3)
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he va…
People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).