Word Meanings - INEXTINCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not quenched; not extinct.

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• EXTINCT
  1. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct. Milton. 2. Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud
• QUENCHLESS
  Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury. "Once kindled, quenchless evermore." Byron. Syn. -- Inextinguishable; unquenchable. -- Quench"less*ly, adv. -- Quench"less*ness, n.
• QUENCHABLE
  Capable of being quenched.
• QUENCHER
  One who, or that which, quenches. Hammond.
• EXTINCTION
  1. 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. State of being extinguished or of ceasing to be; destruction; suppression; as, the extinction
• QUENCH
  causative of cwincan, acwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. 1. To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle;
• OUTQUENCH
  To quench entirely; to extinguish. "The candlelight outquenched." Spenser.
• INEXTINCT
  Not quenched; not extinct.