extinctive
English
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editextinctive (comparative more extinctive, superlative most extinctive)
- Tending or serving to extinguish, or make extinct.
- 1958, Joseph Wolpe, Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition[1]:
- Even with mild degrees of anxiety the ineffectiveness of the extinctive mechanism is striking.