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defunct

Pronunciation: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/

The English word “defunct” has 7 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
  2. No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
  3. 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.
  4. (of a language) No longer spoken.
  5. Deceased, dead.

verb

  1. To make defunct.

noun

  1. The dead person (referred to).

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).

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