Become extinct
End and become extinct are semantically related. In some cases you can use "End" instead a verb phrase "Become extinct".
End
End verb - To bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point.
Both terms in one sentence
- Now it's true that Diplodocus, the only species depicted in the story, did become extinct at the end of the Jurassic; but there were other giants, such as Sauroposeidon and Argentinosaurus, right through the Cretaceous.
- Cavenger's teenage daughter, Sarah, also goes to Lake Alban with Loch and Zaidee.It is eventually revealed that the monsters are living plesiosaurs — marine reptiles thought to have become extinct 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period.
Source: Literature / Loch -
Not coincidentally, demographers expect the number of Parsees to have fallen below 25,000 by 2020 and probably become extinct by the end of the century.
Source: Useful Notes / Zoroastrianism
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