Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“No longer active”7 letters
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