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extinction
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Sense: Extinguishment

Synonyms:

quenching, drowning , putting out, blotting out, darkening, snuffing, turning out, turning off, smothering, stifling, dousing, ebbing, ebb , vanishing, dissipating, dissolving, dispersion, disappearance, going out

Sense: Annihilation

Synonyms:

abolition, extermination, extirpation, dying out, destruction , murder , annihilation, genocide, massacre, death , elimination, eradication, obsolescence, demise , expiry, expiration, wiping out, ending , end , doom , end of life, curtains (slang)

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