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Extinct vs Endanger - What's the difference?

extinct | endanger |

As an adjective extinct

is (dated) extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc).

As a verb endanger is

to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

extinct

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
    • Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct .
  • No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
  • * Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
  • *
    • Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system
    writes in there'' as two words but ''therein'' as one word might be taken as suggest-
    ing that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern
    English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a
    few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as ''thereby     .
  • No longer in existence; having died out.
    • The dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
  • (vulcanology) No longer actively erupting.
    • Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct .

    Synonyms

    * dead

    Antonyms

    * (no longer alight) burning * (having died out) extant * active, dormant

    Related terms

    * extinction * extinctive * extinguish

    External links

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    endanger

    English

    Alternative forms

    * endaunger (obsolete) * indanger

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
  • * 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
  • * Burke
    • All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
  • * 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
    • If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
  • (obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.

    Synonyms

    * See also