defunct
adjective/dɪˈfʌŋkt/
/dɪˈfʌŋkt/
(formal)- no longer existing, operating or being used
- a largely defunct railway network
Extra Examples- He wrote many articles for the now sadly defunct newspaper, the Daily Correspondent.
- Handwriting is another ancient skill at risk of being made defunct by computers and smartphones.
- These machines are now considered defunct.
- the ruined buildings of a long defunct mine
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- make something
- …
- almost
- largely
- sadly
- …
Word Originmid 16th cent. (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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