defunct.
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
Meaning & usage
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
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.
(of a language) No longer spoken.
Deceased, dead.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
To make defunct.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
The dead person (referred to).
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
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