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defunct Definition


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defunct
adj
    1. now facetious or formal
      No longer living, existing, active, usable or in use.
      Thesaurus: dead, expired, departed, deceased, obsolete, nonexistent, extinct; invalid, passé; Antonym: alive, operative.
Etymology: 16c: from Latin defungi, defunctus to finish.



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