The phrase "almost extinguished" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly or almost completely put out, such as a fire or a light.
Example: "The campfire was almost extinguished, with only a few glowing embers remaining."
Alternatives: "nearly out" or "close to being extinguished."
Despite abundant natural resources and one of the region's best-educated populations, corruption, bureaucracy and political instability have almost extinguished investor interest in the Philippines.
The Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a "Teutonic germ" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery.
It is to move to a political place where Jews do not matter - a direction which they will understandably not follow, because they were herded there before and almost extinguished as a people.
It's an impressive list: "the remains of broken and almost extinguished tribes; the descendants of wandering hunters and trappers; of fugitives from the Spanish and American frontiers; of adventurers and desperadoes of every class and country, yearly ejected from the bosom of society into the wilderness".
"Our culture was almost extinguished," says Chief Almir Suruí, who has led his community's recovery, and has great faith in this most recent endeavor.
Meanwhile, the Liberals decided it would be far too predictable to exploit the momentum of the boy wonder who thinks he understands quantum computing and instead decided to go the way of the buffalo, the slow-moving and almost extinguished animal that was unironically selected as the party's logo (the party scored a pathetic three seats).
It also nearly extinguished Jarboe's career.
The destructive wildfires are nowhere near extinguished and remain exceedingly dangerous.
The nearly extinguished wildfire, which erupted Dec. 4, is the largest fire on record in California.
Moderate groups that did not exist before, such as Harakat Hazm, or which had almost been extinguished six months ago, such as the Syrian Revolutionary Front, have been revived and bolstered.At the same time other groups, including Islamist ones, have been scrambling to portray themselves as more moderate.
In the Battle of Carthage the city was stormed after a short siege and completely destroyed, its culture "almost totally extinguished".
