Meanings
nounextinguishment (countable and uncountable, plural extinguishments)
plural extinguishments
- countableuncountableThe act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
[…] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]
1868, Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre - countableuncountablelawThe annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
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extinguishment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extinguishment
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“extinguishment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extinguishment. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extinguishment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extinguishment.
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