experimental extinction
— Noun
– English
～ a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
extinction
— Noun
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～ no longer active; extinguished; "the extinction of the volcano"
extinguish
— Verb
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～ kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
extinguish
— Verb
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～ extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar"
extinguish
— Verb
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～ put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
extinguish
— Verb
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～ put an end to; kill; "The Nazis snuffed out the life of many Jewish children"
extinguish
— Verb
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～ terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"
extinguishable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being extinguished or killed; "an extinguishable fire"; "hope too is extinguishable"
extinguished
— Adjective
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～ of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
extinguisher
— Noun
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～ a manually operated device for extinguishing small fires
extirpable
— Adjective
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～ capable of being totally destroyed or wiped out
extirpate
— Verb
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～ pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden"
extirpate
— Verb
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～ destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted"; "root out corruption"
extirpate
— Verb
– English
～ surgically remove (an organ)