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defunct adjective [ dɪˈfʌŋ(k)t ]

• no longer existing or functioning.
• "the now defunct Somerset & Dorset railway line"
Similar: disused, no longer in use, unused, inoperative, non-functioning, unusable, obsolete, no longer in existence, discontinued, extinct, fossilized,
Opposite: working, extant,
Origin: mid 16th century (in the sense ‘deceased’): from Latin defunctus ‘dead’, past participle of defungi ‘carry out, finish’, from de- (expressing reversal) + fungi ‘perform’.


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