Defunct
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
- US also IPA: /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/
Origin
From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor ("to finish, discharge").
Full definition of defunct
Adjective
defunct
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- Shakespearedefunct organs
- ByronThe boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near.
- No longer in use, inactive.
- (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 yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
- (business) No longer in business or service.
Verb
- To make defunct.
Noun
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, ...