different between malfunctioned vs defunct

English

Verb

malfunctioned

1. simple past tense and past participle of malfunction

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)

1. (now rare) Deceased, dead.
   • 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante

     The boar, defunct, lay tripp'd up, near.

2. No longer in use, inactive.
3. (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.
4. (business) No longer in business or service.
5. (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• (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete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)

1. To make defunct.

Noun

defunct

1. 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, […]

Related terms

• function
• bankrupt

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French défunt

Noun

defunct m (plural defunc?i)

1. deceased

Declension