today's verbing

[Marc Velasco]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

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> When I need a verb for 'make extinct' I use "extinguish".
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as do firefighters.

have biologists adopted this?

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