Term: dead letter: the state of something that has outlived its relevance
Candidate hypernym: state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes → 1
Candidate hypernym: edging: border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) → 0
Candidate hypernym: papyrus: tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times → 0
Candidate hypernym: extension: a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt → 0
Candidate hypernym: round robin: a tournament in which every contestant plays every other contestant → 0
Candidate hypernym: inclination: the act of inclining; bending forward → 0
Candidate hypernym: solar system: the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field → 0
Candidate hypernym: kilobit: a unit of information equal to 1000 bits → 0
Candidate hypernym: acherontia: death's-head moth → 0
Candidate hypernym: stern chaser: a naval gun able to fire astern at a ship in chase → 0
Candidate hypernym: protective covering: the tough natural covering of some organisms → 0