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defunct
English
Etymology
From Old French defunct (French défunt), from Latin d?functus, past participle of d?fungor (“to finish, discharge”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /d??f??kt/
- (US) also IPA(key): /?di?f??kt/
Adjective
defunct (comparative more defunct, superlative most defunct)
- (now rare) Deceased, dead.
- 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante
- The boar, defunct, lay tripp'd up, near.
- 1822, Lord Byron (translator), Morgante
- No longer in use, inactive.
- (computing) 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.
- (business) No longer in business or service.
- (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
Synonyms
- (no longer in use): antiquated, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Translations
Verb
defunct (third-person singular simple present defuncts, present participle defuncting, simple past and past participle defuncted)
- To make defunct.
Noun
defunct
- The dead person (referred to).
- 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:
- […] he saw Robert Johnston, pannel, come out of the cott-house with the fork in his hand, and pass by Alexander Fall and the deponent; heard the pannell say, he had sticked the dog, and he would stick the whelps too; whereupon the pannell run after the defunct’s son with the fork in his hand, […]
- 1817 September, in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, volume 1, page 617:
Related terms
- function
- bankrupt
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French défunt
Noun
defunct m (plural defunc?i)
- deceased
Declension
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retires
English
Verb
retires
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of retire
Anagrams
- Reister, Riester, reiters, retiers, retries, terries, étriers
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /r??ti.??s/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re?ti.?es/
Verb
retires
- second-person singular present indicative form of retirar
French
Verb
retires
- second-person singular present indicative of retirer
- second-person singular present subjunctive of retirer
Anagrams
- étriers
Portuguese
Verb
retires
- second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of retirar
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of retirar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re?ti?es/, [re?t?i.?es]
Verb
retires
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of retirar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of retirar.
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