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Word entry · 7 letters

defunct

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"No longer active"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈfʌŋkt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cdefntuStarts with DEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. No longer existing, active, or operating.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • [T]he engineer must solve the mysteries of boiler accidents by studying defunct structures of many different types.
  • The organs, though defunct and dead before, / Break up their drowsy grave and newly move
  • 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.

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