Cessation of the existence or duration of a thing; end, disappearance, destruction; (also) the cause or occasion of this.

burning out, extinction.

The action of fade, v.1; (also) the period of decay. fading out: a gradual dying out.

Termination or cessation of being; ceasing to be; ending.

Cessation.

transferred and figurative. Of a flame, a sentiment, etc.: The fact or process of dying out; the state of being extinct. Obsolete.

An ending or extinction, esp. of something regarded as undesirable, controversial, troublesome, etc.; something that causes the end (of a theory…

Absence or cessation of consciousness or life.

The state of being defunct; extinctness.

(un-, prefix2 affix 2.)

dead and gone (usually in literal sense); hence dead-and-goneness. Also dead and alive (see dead-alive, adj.); dead and buried; dead and done (for,…