"defunction" meaning in English

See defunction in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /dəˈfʌŋkʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-defunction.wav Forms: defunctions [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} defunction (countable and uncountable, plural defunctions)
  1. (obsolete) Death. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Death Derived forms: defunctioning Related terms: defunct Translations (death): defunció [feminine] (Catalan), défunction [feminine] (French), (shi) (Japanese), 消滅 (shōmetsu) (Japanese), defunción [feminine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "death",
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      "sense": "death",
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