EGAVE

defunct

About 0.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
  2. adjective No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
  3. adjective 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.
  4. adjective (of a language) No longer spoken.
  5. adjective Deceased, dead.
  6. verb To make defunct.
  7. noun The dead person (referred to).

Similar words

dead inoperative deceased extinct obsolete departed late missing outmoded invalid

Often followed by

and in economist or by national as company soviet

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