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Word entry · 7 letters

defunct

Best crossword clue

"No longer active"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
1D2E3F4U5N6C7T

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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