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defunct
English
Etymology
From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin d?functus, past participle of d?fungor (“to finish, discharge”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d??f??kt/
- (US) also IPA(key): /?di?f??kt/
Adjective
defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante
- The boar, defunct, lay tripp'd up, near.
- 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante
- No longer in use, inactive.
- (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.
- (business) No longer in business or service.
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
Synonyms
- (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Translations
Verb
defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)
- To make defunct.
Noun
defunct
- The dead person (referred to).
- 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:
- […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]
- 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:
Related terms
- function
- bankrupt
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French défunt
Noun
defunct m (plural defunc?i)
- deceased
Declension
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defunction
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??f??k??n/
Noun
defunction (countable and uncountable, plural defunctions)
- (obsolete) Death.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:death
Antonyms
- existence, life
- birth
Related terms
- defunct
Translations
References
- defunction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- functioned
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