Corruption
Corruption noun - The process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances.
Extinction and corruption are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Corruption".
Extinction
Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.
Corruption and extinction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Corruption" instead a noun "Extinction".
Nearby Word: extinct
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human corruption | human extinction |
| complete | complete corruption | complete extinction |
| wholesale | wholesale corruption | wholesale extinction |
| actual | actual corruption | actual extinction |
| Other adjectives: massive, bad, deliberate, major, possible, final, less, vast, inevitable, eventual, local, economic, global. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Codex: Grey Knights describes something called "the Terminus Decree." Knowledge of its existence is restricted to the Supreme Grand Master, who is only to access it when all of humanity is in peril of extinction or corruption.
Source: Godzilla Threshold -
The Atoner: Azrael, who feels profound guilt for his part in starting the premature Endwar that crippled the forces of Heaven, lead to Abaddon's corruption, and the extinction of humanity.
Source: Video Game / Darksiders -
The war resulted in the creation of the Ork scourge (the Old Ones' desperate plan to fight against the Necrons and C'tan), the Old Ones' near extinction, and the corruption of the Realm of Souls into the nightmarish Warp and the birth of the first daemons.
Source: Aliens Are Bastards
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