Vocabulary Word
Word: defunct
Definition: dead; no longer in use or existence
Definition: dead; no longer in use or existence
Sentences Containing 'defunct'
Why, man, you can take a defunct that you couldn't GIVE away; and get your embamming traps around you and go to work; and in a couple of hours he is worth a cool six hundred that's what HE'S worth.
In truth, it turned out to be one of those problematical whales that seem to dry up and die with a sort of prodigious dyspepsia, or indigestion; leaving their defunct bodies almost entirely bankrupt of anything like oil.
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