adjective. Having ceased to exist or live.

Dead; deceased; extinct.

noun. A dead person, or dead persons collectively; the dead: most commonly used of a recently deceased person.

noun. A dead person; one deceased.

adjective. Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.

adjective. No longer in effect or use; no longer operating.

adjective. Deceased, dead.

adjective. No longer in use, inactive.

adjective. Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.

adjective. No longer in business or service.

verb. To make defunct.

noun. The dead person (referred to).

adjective. no longer in force or use; inactive

adjective. having ceased to exist or live

"To blame the old liberal wing of the party, now pretty much defunct, is the equivalent of a baseball team blaming the batboy for a tragic loss."

dead  inoperative  

bankrupt  function  

debunked  dunked  flunked  junked  plunked  

Austrian  Babylonian  august  bankrupt  deceased  

SOL  ago  all bets off  all gone  all off