Abandoned
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.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class 3b -
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 -
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.
Source: Saved from Development Hell
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