Extinct
Extinct adjective - No longer existing.
Passed and extinct are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Passed" instead an adjective "Extinct".
Nearby Word: extinction
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The wizarding families of Harry Potter are strict on Lineage Comes from the Father; a family's surname (and thus inheritance) is passed down from father to son almost exclusively, which means that if a given family loses the last male who inherited the surname, it becomes "extinct in the male line".
Source: Last of His Kind - Of course, later on in the game you discover That humanity has actually already gone extinct, and the protagonist and all the humans he has encountered are constructed figments created from the dust by the last surviving human, who has long since passed away, making it a Class 5.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class 2
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