Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (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. 2. (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.

Multi-Version Concordance Extinction (4 Occurrences) 2 Peter 2:6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly; (See RSV) Leviticus 25:23 And the land is not sold -- to extinction, for the land 'is' Mine, for sojourners and settlers 'are' ye with Me; (YLT) Leviticus 25:30 and if it is not redeemed until the fulness to him of a perfect year, then hath the house which 'is' in a walled city been established to extinction to the buyer of it, to his generations; it goeth not out in the jubilee; (YLT) Job 31:29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him; (See NAS)