extinctive
/ɪkˈstɪŋktɪv/
adjective
- Tending or serving to cause extinction; making something no longer exist.
- Some scientists study extinctive events that wiped out entire species.
- The extinctive effect of the new law ended the old tax exemption.
- The treaty had an extinctive clause that canceled all previous agreements.
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