defunct
IPA: dɪfˈʌŋkt
noun
- The dead person (referred to).
verb
- To make defunct.
adjective
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
- (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
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Examples of "defunct" in Sentences
- Actor in defunct HDM series blames Pope for unemployment
- I've heard rumours that it's now defunct, which is a crine shame.
- And as a bonus question, name defunct MLB teams with three letters on the cap.
- He is perhaps known as the defunct XFL's biggest star; he played under the moniker "He Hate Me."
- The word defunct in this instance means no longer in effect or use; no longer functioning or operating.
- In March, wrote back and they said that their supplier went "defunct" -- I thought People was the supplier.
- To blame the old liberal wing of the party, now pretty much defunct, is the equivalent of a baseball team blaming the batboy for a tragic loss.
- We realize it could be impossible to recover costs from an overseas company that's been described as defunct with no assets, but it's going to take years to clean up the toxic site, so both efforts should be pursued concurrently.
- Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question — no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it.
- Do you, my dear (to whom theory and practice are the same thing in almost every laudable quality), apply the observation to yourself, in this particular case, where resolution is required; and where the performance of the will of the defunct is the question -- no more to be dispensed with by you, in whose favour it was made, than by any body else who have only themselves in view by breaking through it.
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