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defunct

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Adjective

  1. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
  2. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again: No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
  3. 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. (of a language) No longer spoken.
  5. Deceased, dead.

Verb

  1. To make defunct.

Noun

  1. The dead person (referred to).

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