Extinction and Ruin

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Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

Usage example: the state's population of moose has been replenished, having once been hunted almost to extinction

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Ruin is a synonym for extinction. In some cases you can use "Ruin" instead a noun "Extinction".

Nearby Word: extinct

Ruin noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

Usage example: a vicious bombardment that left the building in ruins

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Extinction is a synonym for ruin in situation of devastation topic. Sometimes you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Ruin".

Nearby Words: ruined, ruination, ruinous, ruining, ruinously

old	old extinction	old ruin
complete	complete extinction	complete ruin
certain	certain extinction	certain ruin
utter	utter extinction	utter ruin
Other adjectives: massive, great, bad, major, societal, mysterious, inevitable, imminent, eventual, sudden, economic.

He told you of his return... he told you of ruin... extinction... the end of all things.

Source: Evil Is Hammy
The last parts of the game are all about retrieving the coordinates from an ancient Forerunner ruin before it's overrun by enemies, and taking the data to the Autumn in the hope that it will find something at the coordinates to help save humanity from total extinction.

Source: Fling a Light into the Future

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