Definition of "defunct" in English

adjective

1. No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.

2. (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.

3. (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.

4. (now rare) Deceased, dead.

verb

1. To make defunct.

noun

1. The dead person (referred to).

   • […] 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, […]