defunct
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
- The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move
- 1820 February (date written; published 30 July 1823), Luigi Pulci, “The Morgante Maggiore of Pulci”, in Lord Byron, transl., The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron […], New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published November 1907, →OCLC, canto I, stanza LXIII, page 560, column 2:
- Morgante at a venture shot an arrow, / Which pierced a pig precisely in the ear, / And passed unto the other side quite through; / So that the boar, defunct, lay tripped up near.
- No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
- (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.
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
Synonyms[edit]
- (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Translations[edit]
deceased
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no longer in use
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Verb[edit]
defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)
- To make defunct.
Noun[edit]
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:
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Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
defunct m (plural defuncți)
Declension[edit]
Declension of defunct
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) defunct | defunctul | (niște) defuncți | defuncții |
genitive/dative | (unui) defunct | defunctului | (unor) defuncți | defuncților |
vocative | defunctule | defuncților |
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