Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having ceased to exist or live.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dead; deceased; extinct.
- noun A dead person, or dead persons collectively; the dead: most commonly used of a recently deceased person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A dead person; one deceased.
- adjective Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
- adjective No longer in effect or use; no longer operating.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Deceased ,dead . - adjective No longer in use,
inactive . - adjective computing Specifically, of a program: that has
terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yetreaped it. See alsozombie ,zombie process . - adjective business No longer in
business orservice . - verb To make defunct.
- noun The dead person (referred to).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective no longer in force or use; inactive
- adjective having ceased to exist or live
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Actor in defunct HDM series blames Pope for unemployment
News bits 2009
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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.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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In March, wrote back and they said that their supplier went "defunct" -- I thought People was the supplier.
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And as a bonus question, name defunct MLB teams with three letters on the cap.
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I've heard rumours that it's now defunct, which is a crine shame.
Boing Boing 2008
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The word defunct in this instance means no longer in effect or use; no longer functioning or operating.
Defunct amberfocus 2008
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He is perhaps known as the defunct XFL's biggest star; he played under the moniker "He Hate Me."
USATODAY.com - Cuts: M. Anderson, Pryce, S. Davis among players shed; Simms re-signs 2006
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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.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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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.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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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.
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