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unextincted

unextincted is the simple past and past participle of unextinct.

Meaning of unextinct

Verb

unextinct (third-person singular simple present unextincts, present participle unextincting, simple past and past participle unextincted)

  1. (transitive) To make not extinct; especially, to return an extinct species to existence.
    • Removing graffiti.
      Unextincting the dodo bird.2007, Richard Greene, 'Shroom!, page 428
    Synonyms:
    de-extinct
  2. To correct, or otherwise account for the extinction of an astronomical object.

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Questions about unextincted

What is unextincted the simple past and past participle of?
Unextincted is the simple past and past participle of unextinct.

Words near unextincted in the dictionary

  1. unexterminable
  2. unexterminated
  3. unexternalised
  4. unexternalized
  5. unextinct
  6. unextincted
  7. unextincting
  8. unextinction
  9. unextincts
  10. unextinguishable
  11. unextinguishableness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unextincted (page history and authors); unextinct (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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