"defunct" meaning in English

See defunct in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/ [UK, US], /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-defunct.wav Forms: more defunct [comparative], most defunct [superlative]
Rhymes: -ʌŋkt Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰewg-|id=enjoy}}, {{der|en|la|dēfunctus}} Latin dēfunctus Head templates: {{en-adj}} defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)
  1. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again. Synonyms: antiquated, disused, outdated, obsolete
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  2. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
    (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again.
    Categories (topical): Business Synonyms: antiquated, disused, outdated, obsolete
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  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. Categories (topical): Computing
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  4. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken. Categories (topical): Linguistics
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  5. (now rare) Deceased, dead. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Death Translations (deceased): покоен (pokoen) (Bulgarian), difunt (Catalan), gestorven (Dutch), overleden (Dutch), défunt (French), defunto (Galician), gestorben (German), verstorben (German), defunto (Italian), wymarły (Polish), defunto (Portuguese), defunct (Romanian), уме́рший (uméršij) (Russian), вы́мерший (výmeršij) (Russian), сконча́вшийся (skončávšijsja) (Russian), усо́пший (usópšij) (Russian), поко́йный (pokójnyj) (Russian), difunto (Spanish), avdöd (Swedish), ölen (Turkish), ölmüş (Turkish), vefat eden (Turkish), vefat etmiş (Turkish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: defunctness Translations (no longer in use): buiten gebruik (Dutch), buiten werking (Dutch), erloschen (German), gelöscht (German), nicht mehr existierend (German), tot (German), megszűnt (Hungarian), tūnguru (Maori), lagt ned (Norwegian), nedlagt (Norwegian), inativo (Portuguese), неде́йствующий (nedéjstvujuščij) (Russian), feshedilmiş (Turkish), geçersiz (Turkish), kullanılmayan (Turkish), ölü (Turkish)
Disambiguation of 'no longer in use': 42 42 1 15 1

Noun

IPA: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/ [UK, US], /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-defunct.wav
Rhymes: -ʌŋkt Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰewg-|id=enjoy}}, {{der|en|la|dēfunctus}} Latin dēfunctus Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} defunct
  1. The dead person (referred to). Related terms: function, bankrupt Translations (The dead person): покойник (pokojnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), поко́йник (pokójnik) [masculine] (Russian), поко́йница (pokójnica) [feminine] (Russian), поко́йный (pokójnyj) [masculine] (Russian), уме́рший (uméršij) [masculine] (Russian), усо́пший (usópšij) [masculine] (Russian), сконча́вшийся (skončávšijsja) [masculine] (Russian)
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Verb

IPA: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/ [UK, US], /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-defunct.wav Forms: defuncts [present, singular, third-person], defuncting [participle, present], defuncted [participle, past], defuncted [past]
Rhymes: -ʌŋkt Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰewg-|id=enjoy}}, {{der|en|la|dēfunctus}} Latin dēfunctus Head templates: {{en-verb}} defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)
  1. To make defunct.
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        "(of a language) No longer spoken."
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        "(linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken."
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          "text": "The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "(now rare) Deceased, dead."
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "buiten gebruik"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "buiten werking"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "erloschen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "gelöscht"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "nicht mehr existierend"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "tot"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "megszűnt"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "tūnguru"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "lagt ned"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "nedlagt"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "inativo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "nedéjstvujuščij",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "неде́йствующий"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "feshedilmiş"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "geçersiz"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "kullanılmayan"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "no longer in use",
      "word": "ölü"
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      "roman": "pokoen",
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      "word": "покоен"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "difunt"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "gestorven"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "overleden"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "défunt"
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    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "defunto"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "gestorben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "verstorben"
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    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "defunto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "wymarły"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "deceased",
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "word": "defunct"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "uméršij",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "уме́рший"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "code": "es",
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "avdöd"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "ölen"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "word": "ölmüş"
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      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "vefat eden"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "deceased",
      "word": "vefat etmiş"
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      "word": "function"
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          "ref": "1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23:",
          "text": "A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon wᶜʰ the friends of yᵉ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased.",
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          "ref": "1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617",
          "text": "[…] 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, […]"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pokojnik",
      "sense": "The dead person",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "покойник"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pokójnik",
      "sense": "The dead person",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "поко́йник"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "pokójnica",
      "sense": "The dead person",
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      "word": "поко́йница"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "The dead person",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "The dead person",
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      "word": "уме́рший"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.