Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: uitwissing
 - Amharic: extinction
 - Arabic: الانقراض
 - Azerbaijani: yox
 - Bashkir: юҡҡа
 - Belarusian: выміранне
 - Bulgarian: изчезване
 - Bengali: বিলুপ্তির
 - Bosnian: izumiranja
 - Catalan: extinció
 - Cebuano: pagkapuo
 - Czech: zánik
 - Welsh: ddifodiant
 - Danish: udryddelse
 - German: Aussterben
 - Greek: εξαφάνιση
 - Esperanto: formorto
 - Spanish: extinción
 - Estonian: väljasuremine
 - Basque: desagertzeko
 - Persian: انقراض
 - Finnish: sukupuuttoon
 - French: l'extinction
 - Irish: múchadh
 - Scottish Gaelic: extinction
 - Galician: extinción
 - Gujarati: લુપ્તતા
 - Hebrew: הכחדה
 - Hindi: विलुप्त होने
 - Croatian: izumiranje
 - Haitian: disparisyon
 - Hungarian: kihalás
 - Armenian: ոչնչացման
 - Indonesian: kepunahan
 - Icelandic: útrýmingu
 - Italian: estinzione
 - Japanese: 絶滅
 - Javanese: punah
 - Georgian: გადაშენების
 - Kazakh: вымирание
 - Khmer: រផុតពូជ
 - Kannada: ಅಳಿವಿನ
 - Korean: 멸종
 - Kyrgyz: вымирание
 - Latin: exstinctio
 - Luxembourgish: Aussterben
 - Lao: ການສູນພັນ
 - Lithuanian: išnykimas
 - Latvian: izmiršana
 - Malagasy: lany tamingana
 - Mari: вымирание
 - Maori: moa
 - Macedonian: изумирање
 - Malayalam: വംശനാശം
 - Mongolian: устах
 - Marathi: नामशेष
 - Hill Mari: вымирание
 - Malay: kepupusan
 - Maltese: l-estinzjoni
 - Burmese: မျိုးသုဉ်း
 - Nepali: समापन
 - Dutch: uitsterven
 - Norwegian: utryddelse
 - Punjabi: extinction
 - Papiamento: extension
 - Polish: wymarcie
 - Portuguese: extinção
 - Romanian: dispariție
 - Russian: вымирание
 - Sinhalese: වඳ වී
 - Slovak: zánik
 - Slovenian: izumrtje
 - Albanian: zhdukja
 - Serbian: изумирање
 - Sundanese: punah
 - Swedish: utrotning
 - Swahili: kutoweka
 - Tamil: அழிவு
 - Telugu: అంతరించి
 - Tajik: вымирание
 - Thai: การสูณพันธุ์
 - Tagalog: pagkalipol
 - Turkish: yok olma
 - Tatar: вымирание
 - Udmurt: вымирание
 - Ukrainian: вимирання
 - Urdu: ختم
 - Uzbek: extinction
 - Vietnamese: tuyệt chủng
 - Xhosa: ukuduka
 - Yiddish: יקסטינגשאַן
 - Chinese: 灭绝
 
Synonyms, close and similar words for extinction
- disappearance
 - vanishing
 - attenuation
 - fading
 - loss
 - extermination
 - obliteration
 - annihilation
 - destruction
 - extinguishment
 - fire suppression
 - fire fighting
 - dieoff
 - demolition
 - decimation
 - devastation
 - dying
 - dieback
 - extinguishing
 - degeneracy
 - degeneration
 - ruin