How to pronounce “defunct”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
• (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.
• (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
• (now rare) Deceased, dead.
• [Verb]
• To make defunct.
• [Noun]
• The dead person (referred to).

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