Abandoned and Extinct

Abandoned

Abandoned adjective - Left unoccupied or unused.

Extinct and abandoned are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extinct" instead an adjective "Abandoned".

Nearby Words: abandon, abandonment, abandoning

Extinct

Extinct adjective - No longer existing.

Abandoned and extinct are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abandoned" instead an adjective "Extinct".

Nearby Word: extinction

Both words in one sentence

  • Humans in that Verse have also abandoned Earth for space in the wake of natural disasters, leaving us at least locally extinct there.
  • Confessional In the beginning of Exmortis 2 the PC stumbles into an abandoned church that the now-extinct La Résistance were using as a base, and is led by a set of bloody footprints into the confessional booth.
    Source: Confessional
  • Saved from Development Hell Abandoned, then rediscovered in 2008, by which time the game's home platform (the BBC Micro) was extinct and the source code lost, meaning the entire game had to be reprogrammed from scratch.
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