Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to extinguish or make extinct.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to extinguish, suppress, or destroy.
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Examples
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Got an extinctive look at the one of a kind class he teaches, training sailors to do what, fight back against pirates.
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Prescription (a slight modification of the older usucaption) is the dispensing with evidence of title, and is acquisitive when it is the means of acquiring Ownership and extinctive (divestitive) when it bars a right of action.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Powers and the chaotic brute ones, after long contest and partial victory by the former, meet at last in universal world-embracing wrestle and duel; World-serpent against Thor, strength against strength; mutually extinctive; and ruin, 'twilight' sinking into darkness, swallows the created Universe.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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O ye hapless Two, mutually extinctive, the Beautiful and the Squalid, sleep ye well, -- in the Mother's bosom that bore you both!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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The researchers reviewed data that has accrued in the intervening decades, and strengthened the correlation between Chicxulub, the iridium layer, and the extinctive aftermath.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010
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The greatest threat to humanity, no doubt, was only half a century ago, when the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 edged our society to the brink of an extinctive nuclear winter.
Energy Bulletin - bart 2010
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The researchers reviewed data that has accrued in the intervening decades, and strengthened the correlation between Chicxulub, the iridium layer, and the extinctive aftermath.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010
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The researchers reviewed data that has accrued in the intervening decades, and strengthened the correlation between Chicxulub, the iridium layer, and the extinctive aftermath.
SEEDMAGAZINE.COM boustead@seedmediagroup.com 2010
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I wrote to the president of Renault and said: 'I think you have to vote for instinctive design rather than extinctive marketing.'
Carscoop 2009
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I wrote to the president of Renault and said: 'I think you have to vote for instinctive design rather than extinctive marketing.'
Carscoop 2009
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