defunct

Meanings

Adjective

• Deceased, dead.
• No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
• 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.
• (of a language) No longer spoken.

Verb

• To make defunct.

Noun

• The dead person (referred to).

Origin

• From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor.