# defunct
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /dɪˈfʌŋkt/
* (US) also IPA: /ˌdiˈfʌŋkt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌŋkt

### Adjective

defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)
* No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
    Synonyms: antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
** 1880 January 1, The Locomotive, volume 1, number 1, Hartford, Conn.: The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection And Insurance Company, page 9:[T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.
** (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
* (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.
** 2007, J. N. Adams, “The Republic: inscriptions”, in The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge University Press, page 105:When a language dies members of the culture of which that language was once a part may attempt to hold on to their linguistic heritage, if not by the use of the defunct language itself, at least by the preservation of its script.
* (now rare) Deceased, dead.
** 1599 (date written), 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.

#### Derived terms

* defunctness

#### Translations
### Verb

defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)
* To make defunct.

### Noun

defunct
* The dead person (referred to).
** 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 23:A small tablet is fixt near the Altar, upon w$^{ch}$ the friends of y$^e$ defunct lay their offerings in mony according to their own ability and the quality of the person deceased.
** 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, […]

#### Related terms

* function
* bankrupt

#### Translations
## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French défunt.

### Noun

defunct m (plural defuncți)
* deceased